. Earthwork out of Tuscany. d I would never have you act yourown Antipodes. Addio. EYE OF ITALY I HAVE been here a few days only—per-haps a week; if it s impressionismyou re after, the time is now or a yearhence. For, in these things of three stages,two may be tolerable: the first clouding ofthe water with the wines red fire, or thefinal resolution of the two into one humaneconsistence; the intermediate course is, likeall times of process, brumous and a dinner in the white piazza, shrink-ing slowly to blue under the keen youngmoons eye, watched over jealously by thefrowning bulk
. Earthwork out of Tuscany. d I would never have you act yourown Antipodes. Addio. EYE OF ITALY I HAVE been here a few days only—per-haps a week; if it s impressionismyou re after, the time is now or a yearhence. For, in these things of three stages,two may be tolerable: the first clouding ofthe water with the wines red fire, or thefinal resolution of the two into one humaneconsistence; the intermediate course is, likeall times of process, brumous and a dinner in the white piazza, shrink-ing slowly to blue under the keen youngmoons eye, watched over jealously by thefrowning bulk of Brunelleschis globe—after a dinner of pasta con brodo, veal cut-lets, olives, and a bottle of right T^arbera,let me give you a pastel (this is the mediumfor such evanescences) of Florence present I only feel. No one should think—few people can—after dinner. Be patienttherefore; suffer me thus far. My thanks are due to the editor of Black and JVhitefor permission to reprint the substance of this EYE OF ITALY I would spare you, if I might, the horrorsof my night-long journey from is little romance in a railway: thenovelists have worked it dry. That is,however, a part of my sum of perceptionswhich began, you may put it, at the dawnwhich saw Florence and me face to I must in no wise omit it. I find, then, that Italian railway-carriagesare constructed for the convenience of lug-gage, and that passengers are an after-thought, as dogs or grooms are with us,to be suffered only if there be room, and oncondition they look after the luggage. Inmy case we had our full complement ofthe staple; nevertheless, every passengerassumed the god, keeping watch on histraps, and thinking to shake the spheres atevery fresh arrival. Thoughtless behaviour!for there were thus twelve people packedinto a rocky landscape of cardboard port-manteaus and umbrella-peaks; twenty-fourlegs, and urgent need of stretching-room asthe night wore on. There was jostlin
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