In a winter city [electronic resource]: a sketch . the country and the beauty of solitude in away that should almost have awakened the envyof Horace in his grave; and the Due de disagreed with him in witty arguments thatmight have made the shades of Rochefoucauldand Eivarol jealous. And they rambled and idled and talked andsauntered in those charming hours which anItalian villa alone can create; and then the AveMaria chimed from the belfries of a convent upabove on the hill, and the winds grew chill, andthe carriages were called round to the steps of thesouthern terrace, and the old s
In a winter city [electronic resource]: a sketch . the country and the beauty of solitude in away that should almost have awakened the envyof Horace in his grave; and the Due de disagreed with him in witty arguments thatmight have made the shades of Rochefoucauldand Eivarol jealous. And they rambled and idled and talked andsauntered in those charming hours which anItalian villa alone can create; and then the AveMaria chimed from the belfries of a convent upabove on the hill, and the winds grew chill, andthe carriages were called round to the steps of thesouthern terrace, and the old steward brought toeach lady the parting gift of a great cluster ofthe sweet Parma violets. Well, its been pleasanter than I thought 108 IN A WINTER CITY. for, said Madame Mila, rolling homeward. But oh, this wretched, odious road I shallcatch my death of cold, and I daresay we shallall be killed on these horrible hills in the dark!Lady Hilda was very silent as they drovedownward, and left Palestrina alone to grow greyin the shades of the
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