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Updated: June 28, 2025
At Casa Guidi Browning wrote, among other poems, "Christinas Eve and Easter Day," "The Statue and the Bust" of which I have said something in chapter XIX, and the "Old Pictures in Florence," that philosophic commentary on Vasari, which ends with the spirited appeal for the crowning of Giotto's Campanile with the addition of the golden spire that its builder intended
The houses are arranged along the river bank, surrounded by gardens, and the quarters of the troops leave nothing to be desired. Christinas Day has nothing resembling Christmas about it. A tropical sun burns overhead, warm sandy water glares below. In the morning we pass Mosembe, a Mission Station, and in the afternoon, Lulongo.
Christina laughed and blushed and said: "If you do not behave yourself you shall not have either of the Christinas. But I will tell you, my dear friend, how that happened. You must know that in our Sweden, especially in the northern part of it, where father and mother came from, we are a very primitive people far 'behind the age, you will say.
This morning I asked my maid, an elderly woman, if she remembered the old money we had four years ago. She struck her forehead with her hand, and thought a long time. Finally her face lit up. She said that the Tagalogs called the dacolds "Christinas" after the mother of the Queen-mother.
We are what is called `brokers'; but there are an endless variety of businesses under the same name. I have nothing, however, to do with `Mauds' and `Christinas'!"
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