Roderick Taliaferro

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Excerpt from Roderick Taliaferro: A Story of Maximilian's Empire Along the eucalyptus-shadowed Paseo de Bucarelli moved old coaches of Milan, carved and gilded, new ones of Paris, shiny and black. One row went out toward La Piedad, another came back toward the statue of Carlos IV. Between, in red and blue, silver and gray, green and black, rode glittering officers. It was an endless chain of carriages. In them, smiling, saluting, gossiping, sat Mexican society. There were owners of tropic plantations, cattle-covered provinces, fabulous mines. There were retired generals, cabinet ministers, imperial chamberlains. From every country in Europe were nobles, diplomats, adventurers. But there were women. These were the Paseo, for it was a society event. These were the indolent, graceful granddaughters of Spain, with their little black fans, and powdered faces, and eyes of velvet night. In a coach with escutcheoned panel a girl sat languid beside her mother. 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.