In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . he village again, and hadcoffee in a little cafe garden, where laden fig-treesdripped their sweet juice, and even let fall theirgolden fruit, ripe to bursting, on to our very we wandered on, buying some little donkeybells for souvenirs, and started fairly on our home-ward way, only to be attracted by a roadside villawith a great hill-slope garden that was too invitingto pass without trying for permission to explore it. But certainly, the forestieri might come in andsee not only the park, but the villa itself, and them
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . he village again, and hadcoffee in a little cafe garden, where laden fig-treesdripped their sweet juice, and even let fall theirgolden fruit, ripe to bursting, on to our very we wandered on, buying some little donkeybells for souvenirs, and started fairly on our home-ward way, only to be attracted by a roadside villawith a great hill-slope garden that was too invitingto pass without trying for permission to explore it. But certainly, the forestieri might come in andsee not only the park, but the villa itself, and themonkeys of the padrone, and everything, for thepadrone was in England, and had left express wordthat inquiring strangers were to be made welcome! 230 Outside the Walls And so we did see It all—a curious villa home of awealthy bachelor, crowded with pick-me-ups of everysort, from sword-fish saws to valuable-looking oldbooks In the crowded library. And live monkeysand cockatoos, and a wonderful bathing pavilion,mostly decoration and smoking loggia, and with con-. m«s*
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