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It takes a long time for the full beauty of the flat lands to reach a man's soul; once there, nor hills, nor sea, nor growing fan leaves of palm shall suffice him. It is like the beauty in the word "Indiana." It may be that there are people who do not consider "Indiana" a beautiful word; but once it rings true in your ears it has a richer sound than "Vallombrosa."
"Well, you see, Julie isn't, at all," she added, hastily. "You need not have troubled yourself to tell me that," was the Duke's indignant reply. After a fortnight at Camaldoli and Vallombrosa the Delafields turned towards Switzerland. Julie, who was a lover of Rousseau and Obermann, had been also busy with the letters of Byron. She wished to see with her own eyes St.
The idea of our parent being led in fetters through a French town, and then flung into a French dungeon, was so unspeakably painful to us that we were nearly throwing ourselves at the big policeman's feet to implore him to spare our progenitor, when the burly gendarme suddenly pulled off his false beard, revealing the extensive but familiar features of the Duc de Vallombrosa.
A brilliant yet mellow glow lay over the whole opposing height, lighting up the houses of Tosi and the white cottages half seen among the olives, while the mountain of Vallombrosa stretched far heavenward like a sunny painting, with only a misty wreath floating and waving around its summit.
"That's right, Hattie," he said; "finish it, and I will scatter it thick as the leaves of Vallombrosa," and so came "Uncle Tom," and Plymouth Church became a stronghold.... And when all was over, it was he and Lloyd Garrison who were sent by government once more to raise our national flag on Fort Sumter. You must see that a man does not so energize without making many enemies.
'Next day we took stock of our acquaintances, found that the Storys, on whom we had counted for company, were at Vallombrosa, though the two sons have a studio here other friends are in sufficient number however and last evening we began our visits by a very classical one to the Countess Mocenigo, in her palace which Byron occupied: she is a charming widow since two years, young, pretty and of the prettiest manners: she showed us all the rooms Byron had lived in, and I wrote my name in her album on the desk himself wrote the last canto of 'Ch.
In the excitement of the moment, grammar goes to the winds, and h 's fall thick as leaves in Vallombrosa, but they neither hesitate nor falter in their speech, and are nearly all possessed of a good deal of useful practical information. Their behaviour is certainly open to exception, but so is that of the House of Commons.
'If it lasts, I must go away' she said to herself firmly. 'Certainly I must go. But at the thought of going, the tears came into her eyes. At most, there was little more than a fortnight before the party broke up, and she went with Aunt Pattie to Vallombrosa. She took up the book upon her knee. It was a fine poem in Roman dialect, on the immortal retreat of Garibaldi after '49.
He had gone to pass the hot season at Vallombrosa, where a comfortable hotel replaces the old forestieria of the monastery, while a School of Forestry has been established by the Government within its walls. Amid those secular shades the old diplomatist and scholar breathed his last, and could not have done so in a more peaceful spot.
Oh! why had she come to Rome? What had changed the world so? Some wounded writhing thing seemed to be struggling in her own breast while she was holding it down, trying to thrust it out of sight and hearing. She had written to Uncle Ben, and to the Porters. To-morrow she must break it to Aunt Pattie that she could not go to Vallombrosa, and must hurry back to England.
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