In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . are all here,of stone and brick overlaid with a smoothish coat ofcement. There is a part of this face that no owner of thehouse may own. This is a small shrine let into thewall and under it a narrow projecting stone benchbuilt into one of the rectangular juttings. The benchfor the weary wayfarer and shrine for the passingpilgrim are appurtenances of the commune and notof us, nor of our landlord. It is in this shrine thatour servants burn candles for us on holy days, andplace flowers to be blessed when the village priest andhis c
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . are all here,of stone and brick overlaid with a smoothish coat ofcement. There is a part of this face that no owner of thehouse may own. This is a small shrine let into thewall and under it a narrow projecting stone benchbuilt into one of the rectangular juttings. The benchfor the weary wayfarer and shrine for the passingpilgrim are appurtenances of the commune and notof us, nor of our landlord. It is in this shrine thatour servants burn candles for us on holy days, andplace flowers to be blessed when the village priest andhis candle-bearing, singing procession of women andchildren comes along to bless the roadside other side of the house, which is the south side 22 Our Villa and the down-hill looking side, is anything but ablank white wall. It gives on the garden terrace, isfull of windows and doors, and is adorned by bal-conies and a profusion of climbing vines. Its outjut-tings are much more pronounced, taking on the char-acter almost of ells and all of the ground-floor. The other side of the house gives on the garden terrace andis adorned by balconies and a profusion of climbing vines. doors, which are large and double and open fromevery room, have two or three stone steps leading upto them. Inside there is the only possible arrangement ofrooms in a house ten rods long by one to one and ahalf wide. Each floor—the house is full two stories—simply has a longitudinal series of successive roomswith occasional narrow corridors running along by Our Villa 23 their side, in the widest, that is, least narrow, partsof the house. You cannot lose yourself. Thereare no mysterious side trails. You keep on aheador turn around and stroll back along the same it isnt monotonous, because, as I have said, thehouse is sinuous and the trail is a gently winding whole general make-up suggests a two-storypython with interior arrangements for human habita-tion. There are in all twenty rooms
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