The Argosy — page 331: what you’re looking at

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In Sunny Climes. 317 most telling effect. The faces of the girls in their costumes: some wearing the well-known Neapolitan head-dress, others with nothing adorning their small, shapely heads but simply braided hair: were Last DAY OF POMPEII. brought out in vivid reliet by these flambeaux and lanterns ; faces so pretty and sparkling as their white teeth gleamed and their dark eyes flashed, that one longed for the genius of a Schalcken to im- mortalise them upon canvas. All passed away, and we came down to the level of the sea, or conmiicbooks.com