Italian castles and country seats . t of desolation,the fire of their romantic attachment made them quiteforget that there were others in the world, or that therewas any other world than that of their own making. How did these lovers pass the long days of theircomplete seclusion from the world? Surely, it musthave been an invincible passion in both, an infatua-tion beyond the comprehension of most, that couldexplain the abandonment of the life that they both,up to the time of their flight, had thoroughly , theatres, dancing, a thousand gayeties of thegreat metropolis of Paris — t


Italian castles and country seats . t of desolation,the fire of their romantic attachment made them quiteforget that there were others in the world, or that therewas any other world than that of their own making. How did these lovers pass the long days of theircomplete seclusion from the world? Surely, it musthave been an invincible passion in both, an infatua-tion beyond the comprehension of most, that couldexplain the abandonment of the life that they both,up to the time of their flight, had thoroughly , theatres, dancing, a thousand gayeties of thegreat metropolis of Paris — that city that entrancesall who know it — all abandoned that they might beall in all to each other! As we listened to the watersrushing down the side of the mountain we seemed tohear, as in the distance, the sweet Italian voice of thePrince to the accompaniment of the cymbalum ofAnna Maria. The Duchess is quoted as saying oneday in their boat on the lake, A barque, thy heart,and a good cook. ^ Hence the name Villa Pliniana.[196]. VILLA PLINIANA, LAKE COMO


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