Chapter 2 the Marcheza

The Marcheza was something which happened at irregular but inevitable moments in Mrs. Manfer's life. She had always contrived to make out of it something not only showy but even enviable. Amil Asuntha Deli Duchy Delicetta married Venterino de San Fadele, a member of one of the great Neapolitan families. In her stormy and uncertain life, New York where her rich relations lived, and from which she always came back with a few thousand dollars, could be like a foretaste of heaven. Live there, Carina, no. It is too, too uneventful, as heaven must be. That everybody