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we should enter and refresh , ourselves with an ice , Ttirin etiquette not Thoug imposing h the the Ang necessity lo-Piedmontese of male _Gallengr escort on rendered such occasions fastidious . by
work a quarter on his of native a century country ' s soj , ourn of the in Eng taw land driness , comp and lains dirt , in of his the recent Turin
those cafes , of tliey the were other so parts superior of , Ital in y my where humble I had scale resided of comparison , that I found , to
them most welcome and inviting * . There was a luxurious sense of repose Castello in throug looking h the forth softened upon twili the fierce ht in sunshine which we on sat the , discussing Piazza di ,
for the moderate consideration of twenty g centimes each , two pyramidical masses of creme d la vanille , while plants and flowers in . the
window sills , without impeding the view of the busy life without , screened those within from the of the passers-by . In such an
atmosphere the dolce far niente gaze would have seemed likely to predominate , but I noticed in the people as they came and went , in the
earnestness with which they read the newspapers , the quick short sentences in which they commented to eachother on their contents ,
even while sipping the mixture of coffee and , chocolate which is the favorite bof the Turinesea certain air of decision and
grade eomtesse promptitude were in everage a amongst not whisper elsewhere them as senators , from to be those and found , deputies pointed in Ital to out y some . to Men whose me of by every dress the
, would have required no sumptuary laws to define their position . I also observed that Italian was almost universally spoken , the
Piedmohtese patois comparatively rarely , French not at all . This was an indication of the cafe's politics . Bthe persevering use or
rejection of the Italian language , political sentiments y in this country can be pretty well ascertained . The ministrybent on its general
the adoption native , have dialect caused of all it to the be dialects substituted of the in peninsular the , infant , schools the most for
guttural and the most , mutilated , an innovation the wisdom , of which it requires thorough stiff-necked codmo-ism not to recognise .
Instead of learning to read , as was formerly the case , in a tongue only partially understood , for no books are , or used to be , printed in
Piedmontesechildren are familiarised with Italian as the preliminary step . In , every department over which its influence extends
the government shows the same desire ; the circulation of newspapers , the of the _emigrate and the discussions in the chambers
powerfull presence y assisting its endeavors , which have only failed with the aristocracy . Hence Italian is much more spoken by the middle than
that the But hi there g I her have classes was digressed less in talking Turin , while . to finish the my visitors picture at it the must cafe be added than
would have been possible in central among or southern Italy ; and but little . lounging . Though a few appeared listless and unemployed , to the
majority time was evidently not a worthless commodity ; even in the ten minutes we passed there , some of the tables near us liad more
than once changed occupants .
1d4 Life - , In Turin,
1 D 4 LIFE - , IN TURIN ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/50/
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