. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. fer himself; but he camevery near it a moment later when Dorothy remarked, This must be 9° THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN THE TYROL. like Venice, and he replied with a world of meaning in his expressiveeyes, Yes, but Venice is far more. You, who belong in it as if youwere Italian born, should see Venice. When once there I think thecity would win your heart and you would make yourself , if I could see you stand as you stood on the terrace on the stair-case of my muzzers palazzo! Promise me that you will so stand oneday; promise me that, and you will make me
. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. fer himself; but he camevery near it a moment later when Dorothy remarked, This must be 9° THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN THE TYROL. like Venice, and he replied with a world of meaning in his expressiveeyes, Yes, but Venice is far more. You, who belong in it as if youwere Italian born, should see Venice. When once there I think thecity would win your heart and you would make yourself , if I could see you stand as you stood on the terrace on the stair-case of my muzzers palazzo! Promise me that you will so stand oneday; promise me that, and you will make me happy for efrer. After all it was a very little thing which he had asked, but hisvoice, his hand upon his heart and his expressive eyes had thrownsuch unbounded suggestiveness into the request, that it seemed forthe moment as if he had made a most impassioned understood it as he meant she should, and replied in solow a tone that he rather guessed than heard her answer, If youwish it so much I will stand CHAPTER V. VALERIE. ALERIES home was a fantastic little chateau situatedon a spur of one of the mountains whose grand proces-sion encircles Innsbruck. The greater part of thechateau was modern for the old world, having beenbuilt in the earlier half of the present century byValeries grandfather; but there were two old towers, the remnants ofa more ancient castle, in which Valeries ancestors from remote ageshad dwelt until its destruction by fire in the seventeenth century. The chateau was a picturesque feature in the landscape with itsancient towers crowned with extinguisher roofs plated with greentiles. Away back in the fifteenth century the Emperor Maximilianhad been the guest of the castle, and Valeries grandfather, three cen-turies after the event, had celebrated it by having a frieze painted infresco across the front of the chateau on the wall connecting the twoold towers and over the principal entrance. The fresco representedthe welcome given to
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