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Updated: June 28, 2025
Stampa, the valiant and light hearted Stampa, the genial companion who had laughed and jested even when they were crossing an ice slope on the giant Monte della Disgrazia, a traverse of precarious clinging, where a slip meant death a thousand feet below, was muttering strangely at Bower.
Fur-coats would not keep it out; and we longed to be once more in open sledges on Bernina rather than enclosed in that cold coupé. Now we passed Grumello, the second largest of the renowned vine districts; and always keeping the white mass of Monte di Disgrazia in sight, rolled at last into Morbegno.
They are content, for the most part, to accept the notion that all such matters are sufficiently accounted for by attributing them to "disgrazia" the absence of favour, that is to say the want of that favour at the Heavenly Court which it is on every occasion of life seen to be so necessary to successful well-being to possess at the Courts of Heaven's ecclesiastical, or lay vice-gerents.
"Well, you see," he replied, "I have been away. First there was the military service and then I had a disgrazia; but I have come back now." I avoided inquiring into the disgrazia till I could ascertain from some one else whether he meant what we should call a misfortune or something more serious and merely said I was glad it was all over and asked after his brother.
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