. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. mingled with her mortification,only a burning self-contempt that she had for a moment thought sucha barter possible. I deserve the humiliation, she said to herselfbitterly, I am beneath all scorn. She longed with a feverish anxietyto leave Italy. It seemed to her a land of seductive pleasure, enervat-ing to body and soul. She felt the need of stern, wild scenery, andof companionship with poor and simple people, to restore her moraltone. She said nothing of her reasons for wishing the change evento Elsie; but she acknowledged herself weary of palazzos and semi
. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. mingled with her mortification,only a burning self-contempt that she had for a moment thought sucha barter possible. I deserve the humiliation, she said to herselfbitterly, I am beneath all scorn. She longed with a feverish anxietyto leave Italy. It seemed to her a land of seductive pleasure, enervat-ing to body and soul. She felt the need of stern, wild scenery, andof companionship with poor and simple people, to restore her moraltone. She said nothing of her reasons for wishing the change evento Elsie; but she acknowledged herself weary of palazzos and semi-tropical gardens, and expressed her wish to see snow-capped moun-tains once more. Aunt Jane too was anxious for Dorothy to join herat Meran, a beautiful resort in the Austrian Tyrol, where she intendedto remain during the month of September, while Elsie visited herfriend Valerie at Innsbruck. September was the last month in whichthe Passion Play was to be represented, and Dorothys thoughts now 152 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN THE reverted to her original aim in coming to Europe. The first days ofthat beautiful month therefore saw them speeding up the valley of theAdige with Verona and Italy behind them. The mountains closedown steeply about the impetuous little river, leaving in places buta narrow defile through which the glacier-fed torrent dashes down to warm itself in sunny fortresses man the rocks, andtell of the long, fierce wars betweenItaly and Austria. Up this valley, asinto a refuge, the broken forces of theAustrians had fled after the bloody-battles of Solferino and Magenta; buthere the wave of victory for the Frenchand Italians had been stayed, for it wasimpossible to conquer the western province of Austria isa natural-rock fortress, standing likea fort to guard the country from the invader. Bavaria menaces iton the north, Switzerland on the west, and Italy on the south; but itsrampart of mountains, accessible only by narrow passes and defi
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