Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . \ OF THE ON THE RIVIERA DI PONENTE. Doria was born, and then the little town of Porto Maurizio, celebrated for its a window looking on to the sea sits a young mother singing, spindle in hand, with thesunset light upon her face, whilst her brown-skinned, black-haired little ones are playingunder the orange trees in the garden. Even in the prosaic railway stations, what life and. PROCESSION. movement, what charming figures ! It is a pity to rush through such scenes in anexpress train; but really the railway is becoming master of the whole road, and
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . \ OF THE ON THE RIVIERA DI PONENTE. Doria was born, and then the little town of Porto Maurizio, celebrated for its a window looking on to the sea sits a young mother singing, spindle in hand, with thesunset light upon her face, whilst her brown-skinned, black-haired little ones are playingunder the orange trees in the garden. Even in the prosaic railway stations, what life and. PROCESSION. movement, what charming figures ! It is a pity to rush through such scenes in anexpress train; but really the railway is becoming master of the whole road, and it is sur-prising to find what numbers of persons, even of quite the lower orders, have taken tousing it. The notion that time is money seems to have taken root even among theItalians. In the coupe where we sat, we had a fellow-traveller who amused us allmightily. He was a stout priest from the French side of the frontier, just started on aholiday trip, and looking the very ideal of good humoured jollity. At every station atwhich the train stopped his mouth widened into a broad grin as he jumped out hastily to s 2 132 ITALY. enquire how long we were to halt there. The answer was usually Cinque minutiwhereupon he would hurry off to the buffet to have his flask filled with red wine of thecountry. This flask was regularly found to be empty by the time we reached the nextstation, when the whole manoeuvre was accurately
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