Punchinello (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Punchinello

Espite, or perhaps by reason of acci dents of stature and fortune, my luckless ancestor, Anthony Dallas, stands out in pictur esque relief among the stolid figures that fur nish our family annals. When as a child I first noted the old oil painting that represents a man with the figure of a dwarf and the head of a Titan, I was drawn to the face that stared out of the canvas with tired, miserable eyes, in which was written experience of a more gener ous lot of suffering than falls to the majority. When I learned that he had made a great name in music, and was also the hero of a romance of which none knew the rights, but which had undoubtedly more gained than lost by an imaginative transmission, my older years with drew nothing from the first warm interest of my childhood. For years my curiosity was somewhat starved.

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