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Mrs. Clary's assertion that the people looked remarkably vigorous only called out a shake of the head; Miss Graves was set upon
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It was amusing to see how carefully all the houses were numbered, up and down these break-neck little streets, through the narrowest burrows, and under the darkest arches. Here and there some citizen wealthier than his neighbors had painted his section of front in bright pink or yellow, and perhaps adorned his Madonna in her little shrine over the door with new robes, those broadly contrasted blues and reds of Italy, which American eyes must learn by gradual education to admire; or, if not by education, then by residence; for he will find himself liking them naturally after a while, as a relief from the unchanging white light of the Italian day. We came down by way of the square or piazza on the hill-side, to and from which broad flights of steps ascend and descend. Here are the two churches of St. Michael and the White Penitents, whose campaniles, with that of the Black Penitents beyond, make the
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The different use of the same word in different languages is droll, said Margaret.
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French writers almost always speak of these little country church-spires as 'coquettes.'
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There is a Turkish lance here somewhere, said Inness, emerging unexpectedly from what I had thought was a cellar.
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It is in one of these churches. It was taken at the battle of Lepanto, and is a 'glorious relic.' We must see it.
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No, said Janet, appearing with Baker at the top of a flight of steps which I had supposed was the back entrance of a private house,
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Now, Janet, if you mean those dancing-dogs--
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I had forgotten their very existence, mamma. I was thinking of something quite different. Here she turned towards the Professor.
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I was hoping that Professor Mackenzie would feel like telling me something of Mentone in the past, as we walk through that quaint old street.
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He feels like it--feels like it day and night, said Baker to Inness, behind me.
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He's a perfect statistics Niagara.
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Look at him now, gorged with joy! said Inness, indignantly.
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But I'll floor him yet, and on his own ground, too. I'll study up, and _then_ we'll see!
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The origin of Mentone, Miss Trescott, has been attributed to the pirates, and also to Hercules.
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I have always been _so_ interested in Hercules,
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TO ITALY
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Mythical--mythical, said the Professor.
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I merely mentioned it as one of the legends. To come down to facts--always much more impressive to a rightly disposed mind--the first mention of Mentone, _per se_, on the authentic page of history, occurs in the eighth century. In A.D. 975 it belonged to the Lascaris, Counts of Ventimiglia, a family of royal origin and Greek descent.
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Are there any of them left?
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I really do not know, replied the Professor, who was not interested in that branch of the subject.
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In the fourteenth century the village passed into the possession of the Grimaldi family, Princes of Monaco, and they held it, legally at least, until 1860, when it was attached to France.
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He is really quite Cyclopean in his information,