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There were sights to see: the Roman amphitheatre, and the churches with their sculptured sarcophagi and saintly relics interesting joints and saddles of martyrs, and enough fragments of the true cross to build a ship. The life in the piazze and on the streets, the crowds in the shops, the pageants, the lights, the stir, the color, all mightily took the eye of the young Dane.

And it is thus that these strikingly picturesque figures may often be seen traversing the streets and piazze of Rome, and especially of those parts of it which lie on the far side of the Tiber or to the southward of the Quirinal Hill and the Piazza di Venezia.

He turns to the churches, sacred in the eyes of Christians, but not safe from defilement in the City of Churches. He notes on the map numerous piazze, which he imagines to be fine squares, clean, if not splendid; and he observes, with few exceptions, that they resemble waste ground reserved for the rubbish of a great city."

I can scold, I can become unbearable, when this, for example," here he pointed with his mahlstick to the Savonarola, "does not please me." "But it is beautiful so beautiful!" "It is detestable. I shall have to go back some day and renew my impressions of Florence see once more the Piazze of the Signora and San Marco and then I shall begin my picture all over again. Let us go together will you?"

I can scold, I can become unbearable, when this, for example," here he pointed with his mahlstick to the Savonarola, "does not please me." "But it is beautiful so beautiful!" "It is detestable. I shall have to go back some day and renew my impressions of Florence see once more the Piazze of the Signora and San Marco and then I shall begin my picture all over again. Let us go together will you?"

I can scold, I can become unbearable, when this, for example," here he pointed with his mahlstick to the Savonarola, "does not please me." "But it is beautiful so beautiful!" "It is detestable. I shall have to go back some day and renew my impressions of Florence see once more the Piazze of the Signora and San Marco and then I shall begin my picture all over again. Let us go together will you?"