![]() Every sod seemed to exude a yearning for beauty soon muted by languor.Īristocracy still enjoys luxury but the process of decline has already set in and it is irrevocable. At the end a statue of Flora speckled with yellow-black lichen exhibited her centuries-old charms with an air of resignation on each side were benches holding quilted cushions, also of gray marble and in a corner the gold of an acacia tree introduced a sudden note of gaiety. Plants were growing in thick disorder on the reddish clay flowers sprouted in all directions, and the myrtle hedges seemed put there to prevent movement rather than guide it. The Leopard is a novel about the first becoming last and the last first… ![]() “So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.” Matthew 20:16 ![]()
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