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The victim staggered along for a minute, and then fell down in a pool of blood. He had been a spy of the police under Gregory XVI., and one of the principal agents of his cruel government. He was so obnoxious to the people that his assassin has never been discovered. From Bologna we went for a few weeks to Recoaro, where I drank the waters, after which we travelled to England by the St.
Disagreeable voyage on the Po. Venice, beautiful but smelly. Copies Tintoret's "Miracle of the Slave." Thunderstorms. Reflections on the Fourth of July. Leaves Venice. Recoaro. Milan. Reflections on Catholicism and art. Como and Maggiore. The Rigi. Schaffhausen and Heidelberg. Evades the quarantine on French border. Thrilling experience. Paris Takes rooms with Horatio Greenough.
The route lay through Padua, Vicenza, Verona, and Brescia to Milan. From Vicenza a side trip was made to the watering-place of Recoaro, where a few days were most delightfully spent in the company of the English consul at Venice, Mr. Money, and his family. "Recoaro, like all watering-places, is beginning to be the resort of the fashionable world.
Cards have the most fascination for them." Another incident of the stay at Recoaro is worth recording. Referring to the family of Mr. Money, he says: "In the afternoon took an excursion on donkeys with the whole family among the wild and romantic scenery. In returning, while riding by the side of Mr.
Morse enjoyed his stay at Recoaro so much that he was persuaded by his hospitable friends to prolong his visit for a few days longer than he had planned, but, on July 27, he and his friend Mr. Ferguson bade adieu and proceeded on their journey. Verona and Brescia were visited and on July 29 they came to Milan.
Disagreeable voyage on the Po. Venice, beautiful but smelly. Copies Tintoret's "Miracle of the Slave." Thunderstorms. Reflections on the Fourth of July. Leaves Venice. Recoaro. Milan. Reflections on Catholicism and art. Como and Maggiore. The Rigi. Schaffhausen and Heidelberg. Evades the quarantine on French border. Thrilling experience. Paris.
In the first place, your news of Recoaro came so late that, as you said yourself, we ought to have been there before your letter reached us. Nobody would encourage us to go north on any grounds, indeed, and if anybody speaks a word now in favour of Venice, straight comes somebody else speaking the direct contrary.
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