Saksagan

Bulgaria can easily be called a mountainous country. Almost half of its territory is home to different in size, height, character and origin mountainous formations. Mountains in Bulgaria are so various. They are small...

I know that he is a familiar friend, very dear to you, and that you love him as well as woman ever loved such pretty things. For the sake of your reputation and of...

“Then let him come. Why do not you show him in?” answered a voice that startled our poor tradesman, as he hastened to obey her commands. Sitting in an casy-chair, he discovered, on entering,...

“Then,” returned Messer Gherardo, “I am the man who found the bracelet; but I will never restore it, except it be to the lady lirrsclf. Now I beg you will not attribute this to...

When he heard it amounted to at least two hundred ducats, he suddenly bethought him of the richly dressed lady who stood near him at mass, imagining he had seen it upon her arm,...

Messer Gherardo turned his eyes towards her a few moments, anxious to profit by so lovely and edifying an example, without the least alloy of any more terrestrial feeling, and accordingly drew a little...

Carlo Gozzi (1720—1806)After the first outburst of the Renaissance, Italy entered upon a period of intellectual and artistic decline extending into the Nineteenth Century; the Eighteenth, a fertile period in other countries, contains but...

When the wall was about half-way up, the sly workman took advantage of a moment when the Count`s back was turned, to strike a blow with his trowel in one of the glass panes...

The Count had lately had all the ceilings of his reception rooms on the ground floor repaired. Plaster of Paris is difficult to obtain in Ven- dome; the carriage raises its price. The Count...

At these words Madame de Merret turned a haggard gaze upon her husband.“Here, take your crucifix,” he added. “Swear to me before God that there is no one in there; I will believe you,...