The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864

CHAPTER V.

The day wore quietly on, like any other day; for the confusion and turmoil of the ovation were already a half-forgotten thing of the past, and Rome had again subsided into its usual course: in the earlier hours, a city of well-filled streets, astir and vocal with active and vigorous trade and labor; then--as the noontide sun shed from the brazen sky a molten glow, that fe...