Betsy and the Great World and Betsy's Wedding by Maud Hart Lovelace

Author:Maud Hart Lovelace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1952-08-19T04:00:00+00:00

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The Roll of Drums

“There’s a barrel-organ caroling across a golden street

In the City as the sun sinks low;

And the music’s not immortal; but the world has made it sweet…”

Kneeling beside the window of a small white room in which her trunk, steamer rug, flag, books, photographs, Goethe’s cup, Tacy’s doll, and a print of St. Mark’s Square were tastefully arranged, Betsy looked down four stories into Taviton Street where a barrel organ was caroling indeed.

She continued saying the Noyes poem to herself after she had thrown some pennies and the Italian had bowed over a velvet cap and trundled his organ away from Mrs. Heaton’s boarding house. This overlooked a green square. It was one of a row of attached houses, all tall and thin with neat door plates, bells, and knockers.

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