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On arriving at the convent-crowned height opposite, they beheld an expanse of country; a small plain amid the mountains; in many parts richly cultivated, studded by several hamlets, and watered by a stream, winding amid rich shrubberies of oleander.
All were grateful, and wished the American admiral "a thousand years," save one poor creature, who blundered into "a hundred," upon which his angered fellows cudgeled him with blows and words into shouting, "A thousand years, and long ones." Donkeys and boats were taken for Amalfi with her convent-crowned cliffs above the sea.
Nevertheless, as she raised herself in bed to drink the tea that Benson offered her as she caught a glimpse through the open window of the convent-crowned summit and wooded breast of Monte Cavo, flooded with a broad white sunlight she had that strange sense of change, of a yesterday irrevocably parted from to-day, that marks the entry into another room of life.
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