. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph eteacher was a long, lank man, in a black threadbare coat,and a skull-cap—exactly like the schoolmaster in TheDeserted Village/ We made a pretence of asking him ourway to somewhere, and went wrong, and came by accidentupon a wide flat space, bare as a brick-yard, beside whichwas lettered on a fragment of the old city wall, Giuocodi Palla. It was evidently the playground of the wholecity, and it gave us a pleasanter idea of life in Bassanothan we had yet conceived, to think of its entire populati
. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph eteacher was a long, lank man, in a black threadbare coat,and a skull-cap—exactly like the schoolmaster in TheDeserted Village/ We made a pretence of asking him ourway to somewhere, and went wrong, and came by accidentupon a wide flat space, bare as a brick-yard, beside whichwas lettered on a fragment of the old city wall, Giuocodi Palla. It was evidently the playground of the wholecity, and it gave us a pleasanter idea of life in Bassanothan we had yet conceived, to think of its entire populationplaying ball there in the spring afternoons. We respectedBassano as much for this as for her diligent remembranceof her illustrious dead, of whom she had very great appeared to us that nearly every other house bore atablet announcing that Here was born, or Here died,some great or good man of whom no one out of Bassanoever heard. There is enough celebrity in Bassano tosupply the world ; but as laurel is a thing that growsanywhere, I covet rather from Bassano the magnificent 238 mm.
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