The Jesuit (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Jesuit It was the time of the vintage in Rome. Grapes hung in full purple clusters in the vineyards around the villas on the Roman Campagna, where clouds chased each other to and fro, tossed by the light breezes of late September, and cast fitful shadows on the withered grass of the wide fields. In a garden belonging to a monastery on one of the Seven Hills from which Rome surveyed the world long years ago, and proclaimed herself mistress, the terraced rows of grapevines were laden with luscious fruit. A Franciscan monk, in coarse, brown garb, was perched on the top of a ladder in the middle of one of the straight avenues, covered by trellises through which the afternoon sun sifted gaily. Leaning comfortably against the wooden railing, the monk cut off the clusters of fruit with his long scissors, and dropped them into a basket fastened to his ladder. This he did with the utmost care, so that he should not mar their beauty nor injure their symmetry. Being a lover of the lovely in nature or art, Brother Antonio detested imperfection in anything. He lifted an especially fine cluster and held it out into a broad band of sunlight, that he might thoroughly enjoy its rich purple color, the faint down upon the grapes, and the regular form of the fruit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.