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From Lausanne the merry party traveled toward Florence by easy stages, stopping at Lake Como, Milan, Verona, Venice, Genoa, and Leghorn. At Florence, where they arrived early in November, they met Fred Stowe and his friend, Samuel Scoville, and here they were also joined by their Brooklyn friends, the Howards.
The ceremonies and festivities of the glorious day have commenced. Would to Heaven that I were with Pauline, in our palace on the lake of Como!" "Dry up, you fool!" angrily exclaimed the aged and venerable King Lear, whose nasal organ exhibited signs of its having sustained a violent contusion "I haven't closed an eye during the whole night, and now you keep me awake with your infernal jabbering.
On the 31st of May he wraps mosquito netting and tin foil around the pulpit, grabs his niblick, breviary and fishing pole and hikes for Lake Como or Atlantic City according to the size of the loudness with which he has been called by his congregation.
Como la muy alta y potentissima magestad del Gran Sennor tiene hecho articulos de priuilegios con la Serenissima Magestad de nuestra Reyna d'Inglatierra, para los vassalos della poder libremente yr y boluer, y tratar por mar y tierra en los dominios de su potentissima Magestad, Como a la clara paresce por los dichos articulos, de che embiamos el tractado al Senor Iuan Tipton nuestro commissario, para le muestrar a vostra Alteza.
MARQUESA. ¡Ah! ya caigo ... usted es la que suele proporcionar ropa y géneros de lance. VECINA. Cabalito ... como mi marido es guarda.... MARQUESA. ¿Y tiene usted ahora algo de nuevo?
He had hobbled here and watched the other do easily what had been beyond him. His heart was bitter with the sense of defeat, none the less because this man whom he had lately tried to kill had just saved his life. "Como?" asked Dick, stopping in front of him to brush dust from his trousers with a pocket-handkerchief. Pedro mumbled something. Under his olive skin the color burned.
Standing out pre-eminent among the chain of lower hills to which it belongs, the lakes of Lugano and Como with their long arms enclose it on three sides, while on the fourth the plain of Lombardy with its many cities, its rich pasture-lands and cornfields intersected by winding river-courses and straight interminable roads, advances to its very foot.
'Then, at least, said Nan cheerfully, 'you will see Lake Como before you go. Her eldest sister smiled in her superior way. 'Nan's head is full of romance, she said. 'She expects to see the Como of the print-shops: don't you, Nan? Blue water and golden boats, and pink hills, and Claude Melnotte's castle lifting its whatever was it? to eternal summer.
The old feeling of jealousy that was connected with Como again disturbed him. "She thinks that I am a hopeless, brainless idiot," he said to himself. "And I don't blame her, either." Just before nightfall he noticed that his friends were assembling in the bow. As he started to join the group "Subway" Smith and DeMille advanced to meet him.
This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty, with the exception of the arbutus islands of Killarney. It is long and narrow, and has the appearance of a mighty river winding among the mountains and the forests. We sailed from the town of Como to a tract of country called the Tremezina, and saw the various aspects presented by that part of the lake.
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