C446 Fool to Disaster(6)

In the afternoon.

East Seventeenth Street, Rome, was a marble street, polished smooth and polished to a beautiful level of marble tiles, gilt between the crevices of these stones so that they could stretch with climate change without showing too much of a crevice.

On both sides of the street were neat rows of streetlights, made up of dark brass posts and equally dark lampstands