A tour in Greece, 1880 . )roeession came oil, l)ut in a somewhat un-dignified manner, and its failure appears to have sharpened thealways rather acrid humour of the guest. He consequently. ^^!^^ » liillll lllil{lllWlil!!!li!l;ll!i{:ill!l!l liillll I. PYEGOS AND ZANTE. 203 on returning to the town, indulged the populace with a homilyof extra ferocity, spoken in what he conceived to be Greek ;although our informant was asked by an intelligent bystanderwhether the gentleman was talking French or English. Atany rate, he is understood to have concluded with a power-ful peroration contrastm
A tour in Greece, 1880 . )roeession came oil, l)ut in a somewhat un-dignified manner, and its failure appears to have sharpened thealways rather acrid humour of the guest. He consequently. ^^!^^ » liillll lllil{lllWlil!!!li!l;ll!i{:ill!l!l liillll I. PYEGOS AND ZANTE. 203 on returning to the town, indulged the populace with a homilyof extra ferocity, spoken in what he conceived to be Greek ;although our informant was asked by an intelligent bystanderwhether the gentleman was talking French or English. Atany rate, he is understood to have concluded with a power-ful peroration contrastmg the glorious liberty of autonomousGreece with the ignoble slavery of down-trodden England. You are heroes, and the sons of heroes, and you govern your-selves ; we Englishmen are governed by a wretched which patriotic observation he went on board his gun-boat and departed for Corfu, doubtless well satisfied thathe knew Greece thoroughly, and possibly leaving behind asense of astonishment in the minds of the natives of thatcountry. At Zante there is providentially little that it is indispens- to see. On the other hand, every nook and corner offers acharm of its own. Even the soaring spirit of the confirmedmountaineer has to
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