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On the horizon of existence no cloud; none over the sun of progress. And now, suddenly annihilation! With a groan that was a sob, her face drawn and pale, eyes fixed and unseeing, Beatrice turned back up the terrace path, back up the steep, toward the only door still at her command Hope Villa. Back toward the only one of these strange Folk still loyal; back toward her child.
During the past half year his health had grown worse, and he talked at times of returning to the Surrentine villa, if perchance that sweeter air might soothe him, but in the present state of things Totila had just laid siege to Neapolis the removal did not seem feasible. Moreover, Decius loved Rome, and thought painfully of dying elsewhere than within her walls.
Hundreds of thousands of men in this country who could not name half the county towns in England would be able to describe every room in this Belgian villa outside Ypres. Lancashire soldiers are well acquainted with it. During the third battle of Ypres the transport of the 55th Division had to leave the fields just opposite the château in a hurry.
'Our horses! she shall pay for this if my hands can get at her throat! Felix appeared, but not in answer to his master's summons; he came precipitately, followed by a swarm of frightened slaves, to announce another surprise. Before the villa stood a hostile multitude, folk of Surrentum, who demanded admittance, and, if denied, would enter by force.
Then, having returned to Florence, he decorated for Bongianni Capponi a vaulted chamber in that city; and he executed certain others for the same man in his villa at Montici.
"Ah, well," she consented, "then I 'll join in your hope that the fine weather may last. I I trust," she was so good as to add, "that you're not entirely uncomfortable at Villa Floriano?" "I dare n't allow myself to speak of Villa Floriano," he replied. "I should become dithyrambic. It's too adorable." "It has a pretty garden, and I remember you admired the view," the Duchessa said.
When the days grew longer, and the mild warmth of the sun promised to dry up all the moisture winter had left behind ere long, Paul Schlieben had his villa cleaned and painted. It was to put on a festive garment for their son's great day, too.
Taylor's new furniture is now all arrived. His villa, as well as his city-house, will be very stylish." "Mr. Taylor is a very tasty gentleman," observed Mrs. Hilson. "He seems to be very talented, in every way; formed to figure in fashionable life, as well as in business. His new house is a magnificent edifice." "Your father tells me, he has quite finished his own house, Mrs.
Metternich had hoped to retire quietly to his own villa, but it had been already burned in the insurrection; and he soon found that it was safer to fly from Vienna and eventually to take refuge in England. He had, however, one consolation in all his misfortunes.
What if the O'Shaughnessys flitted away to a suburb at the opposite end of the city, and Number Three, Rutland Road was deserted once more, or tenanted by an ordinary, commonplace family, such as inhabited every other villa in the neighbourhood!
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