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term ) place the date between their own name and the persons they address , throwingtheir own quite to the bottom of the paper , in very small characters . ]
MR STIVERS TO THE PARROCO SPINELLA . If I had known what I was carrying * to Leghorn with me I would have turned back and
taught you better . Ay , ay , Parson Spinella ! Argue in this manner , and I will answer for your readiness to kiss fyc . fyc . as you say you do . Now plague upon you ! there is so much craft in your parly that I cannot get the better of you , nor master neither . . I mean at the
head nor the middle . . but j ust before you get to the dust and the devil , I am up to you . You ask if any thing can be removed as easily as raised ?
Cannot money ? I give up all the other things to you . . the discontent , the dust and the pevil .. and wish you joy of them . One word more . You
Tuscans , who pride yourselves mightily on the elegance of irour expressions , and perhaps have reason on your side in many , might afford a little improvement in one . You always
say Our Tuscany , or This our Tuscany . Now what in God's name have you to do with it ? SSTou live in it merely by suf-¦ cerance : you must not make
an inquiry about it as about an ubsent friend : you must stand Iwhen you are ordered to stand , ffon must deliver up your nmoney when you are ordered ceo deliver up your money :
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you are first blindfolded and then beaten . Parroco ! Partoco ! Tuscany is no more yours than my grandmother ' s .
MR RAIKES TO THE REV . SILVESTER DREW . My dear Mr Drew , A residence of one year and ten months in Italy has enabled
me to conquer in part the difficulties of the language : * I find however a very considerable one in answering to my satisfaction your enquiries relative to the state of morals . The
specimen I am about to give you has filled me with deep regret . Yesterday I rose early as usual , and walked into some park-like meadows called the Cascine . on the banks of the
river Arno * A young man of a lively countenance , and apparently not belonging to the lower ranks of society , passed me with considerable rapidity , on his return to Florence .
Hardly one minute afterwards I heard from among the low junipers on the path-sjde several piercing shrieks . You
shudder , my dear Mr Drew : but what are your feelings when compared with mine upon the spot ! It was a very young creature in the extreme of
agony . I approached her , and asked her in the most delicate manner possible the cause of her violent affliction . She replied , fi Oh , the traitor ! the traitor ! O , Jesu-Mary ! to make a poor innocent girl commit a sin like this for half a
paolo / ... I thought it was a lira at least . The Canonico P # # would have given me two paoli
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186 High and Low Life in Italy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/42/
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