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The actual, prosaic house in which the Pirates apparently lived was a mile from a mining settlement on a beautiful ridge of pine woods sloping gently towards a valley on the one side, and on the other falling abruptly into a dark deep olive gulf of pine-trees, rocks, and patches of red soil.
You are not less than two miles from the gate; yet such are the purity and transparency of an Italian sky, that every stone almost in the old wall, every scar which the hand of time or the ravages of war have made in it, is visible. As you advance, Monte Mario rises on the right, with a temple on its crest, and rows of pine-trees and cypresses on its sides.
He came down also unofficially more than once, for his brother had a pleasant house among the pine-trees where he guarded, or was guarded by, the brigade's mascot, the largest of three enormous wolfhounds which, through John Redmond, were presented to the Irish Division. Towards the end of the year new rumours were afloat.
Lucy was not likely to forget, either, for she found herself standing by a narrow inlet of sea, as blue and smooth as a lake, and closely shut in, except on the west, with red rocky hills and precipices with pine-trees growing on them, except where the bare rock was too steep, or where on a somewhat smoother shelf stood a timbered house, with a farm-yard and barns all round it.
In truth, in these woods a thousand objects attract the eye, each a world of varied vegetation in itself; while the ear listens to the quick rustling breeze moving the palm-leaves fifty feet or more above the head, not like the slow gathering, rushing wind among the pine-trees in northern climes, but like rapidly running water.
Arrayed in a kimono which would have evoked the envy of the empress of Japan, supposing such a gorgeous raiment peacocks and pine-trees, brilliant greens and olives and blues and purples fell under the gaze of that lady's slanting eyes, she sat opposite the Slavonic Jove and smoked her cigarette between sips of coffee. Frequently she smiled.
The pine-trees were saying to him: "Ye shall go like the Indians, but be not inhospitable to your successors, and leave them your benediction, that the great bay and its rivers may be splendid with ships and men, though ye are perished forever."
The Bible says that Kings ain't to waste their strength on women, 'specially when they've got a new raw Kingdom to work over. "'For the last time of answering I will, said Dravot, and he went away through the pine-trees looking like a big red devil, the sun being on his crown and beard and all. "But getting a wife was not as easy as Dan thought.
At about eight o'clock Grant and Meade came up and made their headquarters beneath some pine-trees near the tavern. General Grant could scarcely believe at first that Lee had left his strong intrenchments to give battle in a region little better than a jungle; but he soon had ample and awful proof of the fact. Practically unseen by each other, the two armies grappled like giants in the dark.
Lindens and beeches spread a lofty arch of luxuriant growth over the whole place. Jasmines and roses blossom freely in that consecrated earth. Over the big old tombstones creep vines of ivy and periwinkle. There is a corner where the pine-trees grow mast-high. Does it not seem as if the young wood outside ought to be ashamed at the sight of them?
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