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OUR FOUNTAIN. 389
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Notwithstanding A Strong Prejudice In Fa...
long tulations which wri are gg addressed almost ling gait drowned to , eliciting the donkeys by the faint torrent by little their of scream unfortunate reproaches s from , , and overheated the ladies _expose ,
driverswho toil patiently behind them , laden with more shawls , and sketching apparatus . fountain the next hourbut after
that There the whole is little stir ulation by the of the B during i Caldi wake up with , an insatiable thirst ; maids pop without end appear agn again to refill jugs and tubs ,
the children bason climb the men up to and drink boys and do wash the same their before faces , returning rosy with sleep to their , in
down work , to even the , the Ponte lame to beggar beg from takes the visitors a long whom draught he before will now going find
_collected languidly in walking outside and driving the Cafe up , try and ing down to cool the themselves high-road with , or groups
Ci Ices Leonildo and Granita re-appears , "—a on sort the of lemonade Piazza , mixed and sets with and to shoes snow work . all with
redouble as hands he to carries d the vig b eloved a supp , wetting green ly of his caterp water latel illars in y the dried , his who ho frock llow siesta have of , happ his He il li y is ttle for diverted j them oined over
musician selves from his , nearl , emp who y loyment all stops crawled to by perform the away sound during before of a drum my window played . by . a He four wandering is instru really - worthof little attentiofor he contrives to lay on
grinding ments and y tamborine at once an a organ : blowing with with the the a n back shrill , other of pi his , pe beating head which ; a he he drum keeps holds p with with wonderful his one elbows hand tune , ,
a and irl time who , is thoug with h him the whole and who effect occasionall is more curious y joins than in with , gratif a few ying notes . A ;
on my g rest a attention b quaint the - fountain looking by her , little beauty she is stringed li and ttle weary more instrument than looks a , child as she she carries herself sits , , down attracts thoug to h ;
she has y an infant in her arms , whose tiny face she looks down on Her as alread it fe nestles atures they against are bear statuesque traces her breast of anxiety in with their true and calm motherl privation regular y love and beauty and there pride ; is but a .
depth them and y of patho looks s at in the her amused great crowd dark gathered eyes , when round she , her timidly companion raises _^ the last
notes sad to of see a merry in one polka so young , and asks . almost She the rises statel best as dressed the man among yet plays with the crowd such
beseeching for I cannot money do , mute with otherwise a eloquence quiet than , , search as she my points li y ght to grace her purse , sleep for ing one infant of the , held
few ready silver . She coins thanks it contains me with instead a but gentle the of g smile iving , has and her alread the I would coppers disappeared fain I enter
into conversation with her ; man y under the archand she must hurry after him . I my , next-door neighbora little Pisan _Comtessa , whose
merry suppose face I have noticed peeping put , of the window at the musician
Our Fountain. 389
OUR FOUNTAIN . 389
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 389, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/29/
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