Marianna ("The Piazza") Timeline and Summary

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• Marianna and her brother are orphaned.
• They go to live in a mountain cottage; her brother cuts wood and burns coal, leaving her alone to sew.
• She is lonely and sees the narrator's house and thinks whoever lives there must be happy.
• The narrator shows up, they talk briefly.
• And that's it; she vanishes from the story like a dream.