It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.


Volume I, Chapter XXI. - The Marble Faun (1860)


It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little...

It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little...

It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little...

It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little...