. The Brazilians and their country . ^TLI. EIO DE JANEIRO—CITY OF ENCHANTMENT 269 though the top had been neatly cut off, richly ornamentedwith figures across the stucco work, and all about it thewaving branches of banana and palm trees. It was ourhome for nearly four months, the place from which wesaw Rio and her Bay through rain and mist and dancingsunlight by day, and at night followed the track of themoon upon the waters until it blended with the reflectionof the citys myriad lights, which came out half way tomeet it on the waves. My wife stood by me, and she waslooking that way, too, but
. The Brazilians and their country . ^TLI. EIO DE JANEIRO—CITY OF ENCHANTMENT 269 though the top had been neatly cut off, richly ornamentedwith figures across the stucco work, and all about it thewaving branches of banana and palm trees. It was ourhome for nearly four months, the place from which wesaw Rio and her Bay through rain and mist and dancingsunlight by day, and at night followed the track of themoon upon the waters until it blended with the reflectionof the citys myriad lights, which came out half way tomeet it on the waves. My wife stood by me, and she waslooking that way, too, but she couldnt see it; her eyeswere too full of tears. I have travelled the world about considerably; one isapt to get a bit hardened to physical impressions ofbeauty. But I have not yet known anything so much likethe parting with a dear friend, as was the retreatingview of Guanabara Bay on that January afternoon. When I looked back to the right to get the last visionof that old city of all the Brazils, which Mem da Sa raisedinto being abo
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