Explore "Cornelia's Jewels" by James Baldwin on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
It was a bright morning in the old city of Rome many hundred years ago. In a vine-covered summer-house in a beautiful garden, two boys were standing. They were looking at their mother and her friend, who were walking among the flowers and trees.
"Did you ever see so handsome a lady as our mother's friend? " asked the younger boy, holding his tall brother's hand. "She looks like a queen."