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324 JOUENAL OF AN EXCURSION FROM
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heart song with out . , sucli "Whatever ferocity we tliat may we have thoug thoug ht lie ht would of the sing harmony his very of satisfaction to all those
_~ fchese sounds , they gave the most complete that could get within hearing , —the all stairs crammed , the kitchen with , old the passage and ,
and little room next burswere men , young confusion men worse , and confounde boys , —all d , b enj y stamp oying ing the their noise feet , and on making the floor the in
time to the tune ! It was awful ! start day At . homeward last Earl , quiet y on the and but mornin sleep before , g most entering of the welcom 13 the th e , we carri after "were age the up we fati and went gues read of round y the to
which gateway to the was little , delicatel the street onl ; y just thin carved under worth with our note pattern windo we could s w from to discover see acanthus , a beautiful in the leave town old s , g
y of Alcamo . private Descending road to the the hill left on and which we Alcamo wound stands up the , Giusepp opposite e took slope a
, throug the sea h vineyar moun ds t ains grove with s the of olive old Saracenic , with a sp fortress lendid , view Calatubo over
, ( Job ' s drove fortress into ) , the crowning court-yard a hill of immediatel an evidentl y y above deserted the house sea . , and We
now master as Giuseppe the Baron opened Pastore the door , was for us dead to , — ali what ght , he an exp excellent lained how man the he
washow , energetic he was , how much good he did for his people , of and the , so tone on ; work and then that , was turning beginning to the to house fall , away and ; noticing he touched some it
flew moment with past his s the , hand and - most and we dainty said all , , went delicate " See under , the , pure very the and archway walls silver weep - , white out . " into peacock At this the convinced that
the we exquisite were mysterious in garden an ench , grey fragrant anted olive palace with groves roses . , The the and hot desolate violets , hazy house , , blue , distance and the ,
deserted garden , were altogether too strange and enchanting ; and longer I sat under a real a creature pepper . tree At thi and s moment began offered , to the to wonder superintendent show if I throug were of h any the the
long wine estate -pressin cellars came , g up filled and , and with oil most -prep vats politel the aring of wine y rooms , where smell . So it of was we win all deli us went g which htfull into y made cool the
one and ti p psy leasant without , in sp tasting ite of any , and strong —with already quite e , enough of dizziness in my head—I escaped into the garden , while the superin all b - £
which tendent he broug insisted ht that _oiit some the Si dozen gnora bottles 3 J of and different Mrs . B wines , should
taste Meantime . I had the barbarity to beg two of the workmen to and after
a catch considerable the white peacock chase , they , and get succeeded me some in of this his , and feathers broug ; ht us a
324 Jouenal Of An Excursion From
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 324, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/36/
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