Excerpt from Initiation But, of course, Sir Nevill, he had added, with scarcely a trace of an Italian accent, you will find no difficulty in any case. But the rest of the company he did not like so much. It was not that it was different from any other parallel company elsewhere; people screamed and gossiped and smelt of furs and eau-de-cologne, there were meek and trim young men with shining hair, there were tire some old men who bellowed, there were shy girls - fully as much in London as in Rome. Only he had not expected it in Rome, somehow. He had had a faint idea that things would be primitive and quiet here, that he could moon about and look at Basilicas now and then, that he could poke round in curiosity-shops - in a word, that he could be free here, as he could not in London. And he had found the same old parrot-house. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.