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Updated: May 7, 2025
Nor is there any one else to entertain you, since my husband has gone down to the marina to fetch the wise woman who lives there." The Princess stepped close and stood over her. "O paesana," said she, "do you and your man live here alone, so far up the mountain?" "There is the bambino," said the mother, simply. "He is my first and a boy, by the gift of the Holy Virgin.
From Chamounix I went to Geneva, and thence by the Mont Cenis to Turin and to the Vaudois valleys. A long and weary day had ended when Paesana was reached. The next morning I passed the little lakes which are the sources of the Po, on my way into France.
Not until our boat's nose grated alongside the landing was the bargain concluded, and the first runner, a bag of silver in his fist, almost tumbled upon us down the slippery stairs in his hurry to clinch it. I stepped ashore and held out a hand to the Princess who, in her character of paesana, very properly ignored it. Luckily the courtesy escaped notice.
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