Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: DOROTHY] DOROTHY AND OTHER ITALIAN STORIES BY CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON ILLUSTRATED [Illustration] NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1896 By CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON. MENTONE, CAIRO, AND CORFU. Ill'd. $1 75. ANNE. Illustrated. $1 25. EAST ANGELS. $1 25. JUPITER LIGHTS. $1 25. THE FRONT YARD, Etc. Illustrated. $1 25. HORACE CHASE. $1 25. CASTLE NOWHERE. $1 00. RODMAN THE KEEPER. $1 00. FOR THE MAJOR. Illustrated. $1 00. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. Copyright, 1895, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All rights reserved. NOTE Of the stories contained in this volume, "A Florentine Experiment" was originally published in the _Atlantic Monthly_, and the others in HARPER'S MAGAZINE. CONTENTS PAGE DOROTHY 1 A TRANSPLANTED BOY 60 A FLORENTINE EXPERIMENT 122 A WAITRESS 187 AT THE CHÂTEAU OF CORINNE 237 ILLUSTRATIONS DOROTHY _Frontispiece_ THE VILLA DORIO _Facing page_ 4 "AND AGAIN SHE LOOKED UP AT HIM" " " 22 "'I MEAN THAT I SHALL SEE HIM VERY SOON NOW'" " " 56 "'OH, HOW EARLY YOU'VE COME UP!' SAID MASO" " " 70 "'MR. TIBER, BEG!'" " " 72 "WE MUST SINK OR SWIM TOGETHER, MASO" " " 90 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WATERHOUSE " " 96 TEA IN THE GARDEN " " 188 "THE DOG WAS FOLLOWING AT THE EXTREME LENGTH OF HIS CORD" " " 218 DOROTHY I