. The spell of Italy. as grown up to herself, andis in fact becoming extremely handsome. She andthe King are peculiarly unostentatious, and, afterMargheritas prodigal extravagance, their court andtheir customs are often criticized among us as bour-geois, especially as the King detests any display ofcourt etiquette and meets all who come in straight-forward man-fashion, quite like an American Presi-dent. He likes to have people talk to him about whatinterests them, and he has those highly trained facul-ties which enable him to go straight to the root ofthe matter, making little of the superfluo
. The spell of Italy. as grown up to herself, andis in fact becoming extremely handsome. She andthe King are peculiarly unostentatious, and, afterMargheritas prodigal extravagance, their court andtheir customs are often criticized among us as bour-geois, especially as the King detests any display ofcourt etiquette and meets all who come in straight-forward man-fashion, quite like an American Presi-dent. He likes to have people talk to him about whatinterests them, and he has those highly trained facul-ties which enable him to go straight to the root ofthe matter, making little of the superfluous. Elenais of a decidedly literary and poetic bent. I do notsee how the two can fail to interest each other, andtheir children are such charming persons. The oldest,lolande, has Queen Margheritas lovely smile andpromises to be a princess of great distinction. Thereare my children now, added the Contessa withbrightening eyes; two of them, over there by theGoethe, with our little English maestra, Miss you see?. PRINCESS lOLANDE. Gossip and a Garden 117 We had entered the Borghese Villa, having passedthrough the Porta Pinciana unheeding it, so en-grossed were we in our talk. We now hastenedtoward the statue of Goethe, the German Emperorsrecent grandiose gift to the city of Rome. Our at-tention being directed to the little group of animatedflesh and blood, we left the study of the marble poettowering above to a more convenient season. ThepiccoH Carletti we found as charming as any royalchildren, and our parties now joined, we movedslowly on thiough the dusky avenues to a shallow,grassy dell where Anna, the nurse, and the smallGigi were awaiting us in a species of the ancient ilex-trees stretched their moss-grown branches far and wide over the soft turf withdaisies pied; through long green vistas glimpses ofgray statues and old altars were seen; the mur-muring sound of water came drowsily to our earsfrom the fountain of the CavalU Marini. We seemedin the he
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