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What vehicle, bottle-green in color, arkish in shape, cranky in motion, and dilapidated in repose, was a familiar feature of the Mystic River flatlands between Boston and Medford during the early years of the present century? - The Cardinal (book 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Like many a Florentine before him, Captain Gaetano Orselli, master of the luxury-liner Vesuvio, was inordinately fond of jewelry. As a younger man he had not wholly resisted the temptation to overload his person--especially his hands--with costly stones; but now in his meridian forties a purer taste was asserting itself. The gem for its own sake had become a canon with Captain Orselli. - The Cardinal (prologue) [Books (First Lines)]
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