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The statue of Pompey, at the base of which Caesar fell, is not passed over but it would be impossible to tell of all they saw and enjoyed in Rome. Mary made more acquaintances in Rome, nor did the English altogether neglect to call on Shelley. Mary also recommenced lessons in drawing, while Claire had singing lessons, and they met some celebrities at the Signora Dionigi's conversazioni.
"Engaged!" exclaimed Mrs. Erwin, with her shriek in dumb show. "Why, child, she's married!" "To him?" demanded the girl, with a recoil. "No! To her husband." "To her husband?" gasped Lydia. "And she " "Why, she isn't quite well seen, even in Venice," Mrs. Erwin explained. "But she's rich, and her conversazioni are perfectly brilliant. She's very artistic, and she writes poetry, Polish poetry.
I do not think conversazioni of any kind are popular with young men, however; they like better to go to the caffe, and the people you meet at private houses are none the less interesting for being old, or middle-aged.
"I have seen," said he, "aristocratic and republican réunions of the purest mode in Paris, the court and the banker's circle of London, conversazioni at Rome and Florence. Every face in this room is intelligent, and nearly all either beautiful, remarkable, or commanding. Observe those five women standing with Denslow and Adonaïs, grandeur, sweetness, grace, form, purity; each has an attribute.
His personal appearance is thus described by a friend who was on terms of intimacy with him; the place is at one of Lord Rosse's conversazioni.
The conversazioni are of all sorts, from the conversazioni of the rigid proprietarians, where people sit down to a kind of hopeless whist, at a soldo the point, and say nothing, to the conversazioni of the demi- monde where they say any thing.
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