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But while Taormina looks straight down on the Ionian Sea, Mortain looks down only on the narrow dale of the little river Cance, with its steep banks rising on the other side. Yet there are spots among the limestone rocks which rise about and above Mortain which call up other Sicilian memories.
"Yes; the Duke di Valdi, I suppose you call him." "I have never heard of him," replied the man. "But every one seems to know him in Taormina." "Is it so? We have but one duke near to us, and he . But never mind. I do not know this Valdi." "A thin faced man, with black eyes. We met him on the steamer coming from America." The portiere dropped his eyes and turned toward his desk.
What should there be in the glimmering lights of a poor fishing-village to fascinate me? Far below, a mile perhaps, I behold them in the darkness and the storm like some phosphorescence of the beach; I see the pale tossing of the surf beside them; I hear the continuous roar borne up and softened about these heights; and this is night at Taormina.
"One thing is singular," observed Beth, calmly. "There has been no train since last you saw him. If Count Ferralti has left the hotel, where could he be?" The portiere brightened. "Gia s'intende!" he exclaimed, "he must still be in Taormina doubtless at some other hotel." "Will you send and find out?" asked Louise. "I will go myself, and at once," he answered.
Caldwell had altered their plans, and had gone to Sicily instead of to Egypt, first visiting Palermo and Syracuse, and were at the moment staying at the popular "San Domenico" at Taormina, amid that gem of Mediterranean scenery.
He disembarked on our beach, and forthwith threw Lissone's image into the waves, and with it a holy dragon which was coiled about it like a garment and was fed with sacrifices; and he shattered with his cross the great idol Scamandro: and so Taormina became Christian, welcomed St. Peter on his way to Rome, and entered on the long new age.
And he made a statue in marble of four braccia, a very beautiful figure of S. Catharine the Martyr, which was sent to Taormina, a place twenty-four miles distant from Messina.
All this ground, with in several villages, from Sant' Alessio to the Alcantara, and beyond into the plain, was anciently the territory of Taormina. The little city itself lies on its hill, between the bright shore and the gray old castle, on a crescent-like terrace whose two horns jut out into the air like capes.
You see, I go about Southern Europe picking up things for a London art firm!" "And where do you go next?" "Oh, perhaps to Milan, perhaps to Naples; it may even be to Rome, or it might turn out to be Syracuse or Taormina. With me, everything depends, first on the weather, and, next, on what instructions are sent on."
Watson and Kenneth are just leaving Palermo, and he asks us to meet him in another place altogether, a town called called let me see; Tormenti, or Terminal, or something." "Give me the letter, dear," said Patsy. "I don't believe it's Terminal at all. Of course not," consulting the pages, "it's Taormina." "Is that in Sicily?" he asked. "Yes. Listen to what Mr.
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