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Rome in 1860

CHAPTER XVIII
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There were rajahs and dervishes, jugglers and dancing-girls, depicted in every variety of garb and posture.

For the whole set, however, there was but one face.

Each portrait had a hole where the face should have been, and the picture was completed by placing the one head beneath the blank opening.

In fact, you had one face beneath a hundred different draperies.

So also, in my wanderings, I saw but one picture in a dozen frames; one sight in many cities.


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