Excerpt from The Signor Ah, Signor, said the owner thereof, in a gay voice, always first at lunch and first in the hearts of your adopted countrymen! Franca smiled a reply and cordially took the proffered hand of John Wilson. The Signor he always was to these four friends. It was the Signor this and the Signor that, until he had almost come to think Of him self as the Signor. I have learned, he said, that the lunch is a happy medium for reaching the hearts Of your countrymen. The tone was wholly free from foreign accent, and the voice so singularly sweet and melodious that more than one neighbor Of the pair involuntarily turned to see who was speaking. 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.