. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph r swarthy faces ! Poor little Numero Cinque Via del Gambero has seldom,I imagine, known so violent a sensation as that it experi-enced when, on the day of the Immaculate Conception,the Armenian Archbishop rolled up to the door in his redcoach. The master of the house had always seemed tolike us ; now he appeared with profound respect suffusing,as it were, his whole being, and announced, Signore, itis Monsignore come to take you to the Sistine Chapel inhis carriage, and drew himself up in a line,
. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph r swarthy faces ! Poor little Numero Cinque Via del Gambero has seldom,I imagine, known so violent a sensation as that it experi-enced when, on the day of the Immaculate Conception,the Armenian Archbishop rolled up to the door in his redcoach. The master of the house had always seemed tolike us ; now he appeared with profound respect suffusing,as it were, his whole being, and announced, Signore, itis Monsignore come to take you to the Sistine Chapel inhis carriage, and drew himself up in a line, as much likea series of serving-men as possible, to let us pass was a private carriage for the ladies near that ofMonsignore, for he had already advertised us that the sexwere not permitted to ride in the red coach. As theyappeared, however, he renewed his expressions of desola-tion at being deprived of their company, and assured themof his good-will with a multiplicity of smiles and nods,intermixed with shrugs of recurrence to his poignant ! In fine, it was forbidden ! 152. The Piazza Column. Rome 31 a 11 a n 3 o u c n e s a Monsignore was in full costume, with his best ecclesias- Romantical clothes on. and with his great gold chain about his Pearls neck. The dress was richer than that of the western archbishops; and the long- white heard of Monsignore madehim look much more- like a Scriptural monsignore thanthese. He lacked, perhaps, the fine spiritual grace of hisbrother, the Archbishop at Venice, to whose letter ofintroduction we owed his acquaintance and untiringcivilities ; but if a man cannot be plump and spiritual, hecan be plump and pleasant, as Monsignore was to the lastdegree, fie enlivened our ride with discourse about theArmenians at Venice, equally beloved of us ; and. arrived atthe Sistine Chapel, he marshalled the ladies before him,and won them early entrance through the crowd of Englishand Americans crushing one another at the door. Then he
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