over this land of beauty we passed queen s villa these sur you may were ihe scene of some of the scandal that came out on her most scandalous trial and we passed a lovely of ta s where this woman who held the world at is living in happy on country an example of filial and maternal devotion a beautiful villa belonging to count was pointed oat to as and as i looked on its lovely portion and rich i these noble italian risked and lost in holy cause � but not lost every self effort in this cause is written in ths book d life we saw the where the little described nearly years ago and li flows � it then it me strange to ee one thing e the world has undergone such for a while my dear c we felt as if we could spend our lives in over this lovely lake do dot be shocked you at home can afford for once to be forgotten but by degrees our got uppermost the meal above the our voices one by one died away our superb looked a little g s gentle current j l laid her head on the table and fell asleep and by the time we arrived at twenty miles from the shores were wrapped in a veil and we were very glad to exchange our pleasure for a inn we went to bed at feeling that it would be little short of presumption to expect a third fine day and to be equal to either clouds or sunshine i confess i crept to the in the morning with dread but there i saw at her morning watch over the lake the sky a blue and the lake as still and lovely as a sleeping child i was malicious enough to reply to drowsy again but the was too fine to be in t ht of ot he t of freed here he a lie with � � able teacher to ite put and a in of the hi � m b w ii lake we were all soon assembled in a little n surrounding the inn for so you might call a court filled to the very water s edge with rose bu es in bud and we met our the air with cigars which they gallantly discarded and attended us to the villa which covers a hill it is the property of a gentleman in the service who serving according to the universal policy far from his own country leaves the delight of and enjoying it to a relative this gentleman is now m a carriage road around the place and up a steep where at no trifling expense of course it is supported od arches of solid work the whole hu is into a garden filled with roses and every species of growing in the open air the which will not bear our september grows here and as a proof the invariable softness of the climate c � i pointed out an olive tree to me three or four hundred years old this is the result of tbe of the shores of the lake for within a few miles the are severe we wandered up and down and around the coming out here and there on the most exquisite views once our pleasures were not by shrieks from l i hastened forward and found ha flying from a of that her shawl had enraged c leaning on cane with ter at her terror at these rather as i thought with them is on a that the lake into two branches and thence hare a of both j of on one side and oa the other and dear c it was in the morning light with the rose coloured hues on the and villages and gardens looking bright in the early day mom s mantle close drawn here and ih e the lake in the sunshine and no sound but a on the opposite shore � the bells of a distant church it was a scene of for us children of the cold north and you will comprehend its effect and foi te h into the if i tell you that when i first met him on coming back into the he exclaimed his feeble frame thrilling with a sense of and delicious beauty i will never go back to america � nature is indeed here a tender restoring nurse a ta break at we left forever alas and walked through an avenue of to the was president of the republic but when napoleon made the a and crown be made duke of the place has now into the hands of the duke s son a lad of the house fronts the lake there is a look of nature about the grounds and soft and quiet but aa they lie nearly on the level tf the lake they are in lake in to art comes in in italy to help nature to perfect her or to make you forget her we met and and other statues and single and on the were of and m among many others ng s homage to his master there is a chapel at a short distance from the house with a beautiful altar i think by and to different members o the that ther express some domestic story or are � i could not make out which of all things i should like an chapel with the good deeds of my told in painting and stone i will not make you follow me through the of as they are but to get a of the refinement of taste in the room where two little marble boys are on a the one with a sad injured countenance an empty bird s the other a little of and fun has the e s th� � are groups of children painted on di of the wall all having allusion 