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Updated: June 28, 2025

And he was rewarded, so far as the weather went. The morning was quite Como-like fair and blue and calm; the sun shining on the far wooded hills, and on the sparkling little villages at their foot; the green lake still running high, with here and there a white tip breaking; a blaze of sunlight on the gardens below on the green acacia-branches and the masses of scarlet salvia and on the white hot terraces where the lizards lay basking.

William Black - The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols