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"I am sorry to hurry you, sigñora, but there is a bit of really bad snow on the Sella Pass," urged Pietro apologetically at her shoulder, and she reëntered the hut at once, sitting down to that which she deemed to be her last meal on the Swiss side of the Upper Engadine. It was in a hotel at St. Moritz that she had settled her route with the aid of a map and a guidebook.
All of them occur, for the developments of X-ray technique have rendered available almost a direct view of the sella turcica. In the first place, the bony box may be definitely too small to start in with.
Giovanni Lanza assumed the premiership in the government in which Sella was Minister of Finance. Both these politicians were Piedmontese, and both were known as men of conspicuous integrity, but Lanza's rigid conservatism made it seem unlikely that the Roman question would take a fresh turn under his administration.
Four years later Signor Sella was Minister of Finance. As my husband has told in his autobiography, I had a sister younger than myself by seven years, very pretty and winning, about whose future we were very anxious, on account of the recurring interruptions in her studies, owing to my mother's distressing state of health.
He determined, however, first to carry out his project of visiting Santander, which he reached by way of Villa Viciosa, Colunga, Riba de Sella, Llanes, Colombres, San Vicente, Santillana. Instructions had been given in a letter to Borrego to forward to Santander two hundred copies of the New Testament; but, much to Borrow's disappointment, he found that they had not arrived.
You see we don't get many balloon peddlers out this way. You're the first one we've seen, so you'd better stay. It won't be more than a week, or maybe two weeks." "Circus last all dat time?" asked the Italian. "Sella lot de balloons. Buy more in New York sella dem! Mucha de money!" "We've an aunt in New York," said Sue. "Her name is Aunt Lu.
"Most verra big," she warned again. "All right. Fire away." "Well, den " She drew a big breath like a child, as she voiced to the uttermost all she cared to demand of life. "I lika da have one milka ranch good milka ranch. Plenty cow, plenty land, plenty grass. I lika da have near San Le-an; my sister liva dere. I sella da milk in Oakland. I maka da plentee mon. Joe an' Nick no runna da cow.
Me likea de circus. But me no see any tents. Where circus tents?" "Oh these children!" cried Mrs. Brown. "What in the world are we to do with this Italian and his balloons?" "Me sella de balloons!" said the dark-skinned man. "Yes, I know," sighed Mrs. Brown. "But the circus is only a make-believe one, and it isn't ready yet, and Oh, I don't know what to do!" she cried.
Guide Pietro was somewhat a philosopher. Stamping about on the tiny stone plateau of the hut to keep at bay the cold mists from the glacier, he happened to glance through the open door. He drew away instantly. "Bartelommeo," he said to his companion, "we shall not cross the Sella to-day with our charming voyageur." Bartelommeo was surprised.
The first one she glimpsed was propped before the basement gate through which the housemaids had been wont to enter. It was shaped like a tombstone and with amateur lettering announced: "TONY HE SELLA COAL WOOD ICE" And from the rusty iron balcony hung a ragged pair of trousers into which had been inserted a board, the legs flapped dispiritedly in the gusty wind from the river.
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