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I have loafed into Levanto, on the recommendation of an Irish friend who, it would seem, had reasons of his own for sending me there. "Try Levanto," he said. "A little place below Genoa. Nice, kindly people. And sunshine all the time. Hotel Nazionale. Yes, yes! The food is all right. Quite all right. Now please do not let us start that subject "
Beyond lay the blue sea, shimmering and peaceful in the wintry sunshine. "I suppose there is nothing to do but go back to Madame Delaunay's," said Harry. "Nothing now," replied St. Clair, "but I fancy that later on we'll have all we can do." "If not more." "Yes, if not more." Both boys were very grave and thoughtful as they walked to Madame Delaunay's most excellent inn.
He wanted to drive it away, to set her again in the full sunshine for which she was born, and in which, if he could have his will, she should always dwell. "You wanted to take me away somewhere." "Yes. You must see a little more of Greece before we go home. Say your 'farewell, Rosamund."
And he, who has always lacked either the money or the spirits to make that long-pondered, much-desired journey to Italy, has found in her work the veritable accent and colour of those old Venetian masters he would so willingly have studied under the sunshine of their own land. Alas!
Here in this valley into which he gazed was the same soft droning and the same warm sunshine that had filled all the other valleys; and yet here, also, was a different life. Other bears ranged the slopes that he could see dimly with his naked eyes far to the west and north.
The air was most invigorating for, in spite of the sunshine, a fresh breeze was blowing off the sea, and this cooled the air, which otherwise might have been too hot to make the quick rate at which Margaret was walking agreeable. Mrs.
Neither could I help thinking with pleasure, as I turned away, how the merry little old man would enjoy telling his companions how he had posed the new parson. Very welcome was he to his laugh for my part. Yet I gladly left the churchyard, with its sunshine above and its darkness below.
Six weeks of sunshine and and warmth. When the harvest's ripening, and all the world's just glad. And he'll be glad, and and happy, too. Yes, Jeff will be very, very happy because she's going to make him happy." Quite suddenly she started up from her chair. A dreadful panic had leaped to her eyes. The delicious, healthy color had been swept from her pretty downy cheeks.
Whittier was prophet for one great need of the divine to man, and he spoke his message with a fervor that at times was like the trembling of a flame, or the quivering of midsummer sunshine. It was hard to associate with the man as one saw him, still, shy, stiff, the passion of his verse.
The next day was Sunday, and the church bells had little rest; indeed, I do not think I remember anywhere else so great a choice of services as were here offered to the devout. And while the bells made merry in the sunshine, all the world with his dog was out shooting among the beets and colza.
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