In a winter city [electronic resource]: a sketch . CHAPTEK XII. In three weeks time Lady Hilda returned fromBorne. She had been affectionately received by theHoly Father; she had been the idol of the noblesof the Black; she had bought a quantity ofpictures, and marbles, and bronzes, and Castel-lani jewellery; she had gone to early mass everyday, and ridden hard every day; she had thoughtTotila would have been more bearable thanSignor Rosa, and she had shuddered at theruined flora of the Colosseum and the scrapingsand bedaubings of the Palace of the Caesars. She returned contemptuous, disgusted
In a winter city [electronic resource]: a sketch . CHAPTEK XII. In three weeks time Lady Hilda returned fromBorne. She had been affectionately received by theHoly Father; she had been the idol of the noblesof the Black; she had bought a quantity ofpictures, and marbles, and bronzes, and Castel-lani jewellery; she had gone to early mass everyday, and ridden hard every day; she had thoughtTotila would have been more bearable thanSignor Rosa, and she had shuddered at theruined flora of the Colosseum and the scrapingsand bedaubings of the Palace of the Caesars. She returned contemptuous, disgusted, tiredof the age she lived in, and regretful that she IN A WINTER CITY. 337 had not spared herself the sight of so muchdesecration. She conceived that Genseric orthe Constable de Bourbon must have been muchless painful than a syndicate and an army ofbricklayers. She refused to go out anywhere on thescore of its being Lent, and she meditated goingto London for the season to that very big housein Eaton Square, which she honoured for aboutthree mon
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