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The chill of the tra montana brought into this circle of warmth and light many eminent foreigners; and of home-country folk, that true American, Horatio Greenough, often basked in the bright glow of the author's wood-fires at Florence. Later Greenough wrote: "Fenimore Cooper saved me from despair after my return to Italy.
"'Tra! lalala, la! la! la! Tra! lalala, la! la! la! Tra! lalalalalalalalalalala!" And she danced about the room, snapping her fingers instead of castanets. "Don't be so reckless and wicked, my love," said Mrs. Wylie. "You will break your poor mother's heart." Miss Wilson and Mr. Jansenius entered just then, and Agatha became motionless and gazed abstractedly at a vase of flowers.
Her classmates lifted her to their shoulders and began parading about the gymnasium floor, singing: "Nineteen is looking sad, Tra la la, Tra la la, I wonder what has made her mad, Tra la la, Tra la la, Her coaching was in vain, The freshman team has won again, Little sophomores, run away, Come again some other day."
Tommy had a notion that certain whimsical little gods protected him in return for the sport he gave them, and he often kissed his hand to them when they came to the rescue. He would have liked to kiss it now, but gave a grateful glance instead to the corner in the ceiling where they sat chuckling at him. Grizel admired him at last. Tra, la, la! What a dear girl she was!
The ostensible motive for this elaborate ornamentation is contained in the portraits of six poets, who are probably Homer, Virgil, Lucan, Horace, Ovid, and Dante, il sesto tra cotanto senno. But the portraits themselves, though vigorously conceived and remarkable for bold foreshortening, are the least part of the whole design.
Sometimes she shook her head in solemn scorn; and, when Frowenfeld, at a certain point where Palmyre's fate locked hands for a time with that of Bras-Coupé, asked a fervid question concerning that strange personage, tears leaped into her eyes, as she said: "Ah! 'Sieur Frowenfel', iv I tra to tell de sto'y of Bras-Coupé, I goin' to cry lag a lill bebby."
"Why certainly I'll get them for you; you know I love to do things for you down town, but my dear what in the world do you want with flower seeds this time of year?" "Oh I see; planted in the fall but the flowers that bloom in the spring tra la."
Et les confitures, Si vous voulez me les donner Je suis très bien obligé, Tra la la la, tra la la, Tra la la la, tra la la." Only a word here and there could have been intelligible, but their effect upon the pleasant gentleman was instantaneous. He broke into a torrent of foreign exclamations and verbosity, showing his teeth and gesticulating with his hands.
The Disputa, di S. Agostino is another masterpiece, showing as much power as the last-named work displays of softness. It was painted at the order of the Eremite monks of San Gallo for their church of San Jacopo tra Fossi, where it was injured by a flood in 1557, and removed later to the Hall of Saturn in the Pitti Palace.
"A great success. I took a few turns myself with Teresa Ottolini tra la la la la," and he swayed his head and shoulders to and fro as he hummed a waltz-tune. "You!" exclaimed the marchesa, staring at him with a look of contempt "you!" "Yes. Why not? I am as young as ever, dear marchesa eighty, the prime of life!"
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