Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-05-10


saying, " Don't fancy you Il escape old fellow
but do the way the ministry do about Turkey
put the eg day oG dplomatlEe, promise, ca
ille, thr'aten a bit il need he, but postpone
and strong with the precepts. negotiated
as the phrase is. and with dash of reckless lih-
eraIity hat tremble at now as recall it,
sid, " You've only to say where-nothlng but
where to, and I'll take you-up the Rhine,
down the Danube, Egypt the cateracts-"
" don't want to 20 80 far, said she, dryy,
. Italy will do"
That was sumner | hoped the impossible
would have stopped her, but she caught at the
practicable, and fofed me.
" There's only one objection said |, musing
4" And what may that be- Not money, ]
hope"
Heaven forbid-no. Il's the language. We
get on here toerably we'll, for tho water speaks
broken English, but in Italy, dearest English
IS unknown"
. Let us learn Italian, then. Ny aunt
Groves said had remarkable talent for Ian
guages"
lgroaLed inwardy at this, for the same aunt
Groves had vouched for fifteen hundred and odd
pounds AZ her niece fortune, but which was 80
beautifully" tied up" as they called it., that
neither chancellor nor master were ever equal
to the task of untying ii
OF course, dearest, let US learn Italian :"
aud thought how I'd crush junior counsel
some day with a smashing bit of Dante.
We started that same nght-iravelled on
day after day--crosssd Mont Gents in snow
storm, and reached the Trobetta as way-worn
and wretched looking pair as ever Travelled on
an errand Of bliss and beatiiude
" 10 for penny +" is very Irish philosophy
but can't help that, so wrote to my brother
to sell out another hundred for me out OF the
'Threes." saying, " dear Paulns's health re-
quired little change to a mider climate -
Ot was snow ng when wrote, and the ther-
mometer over the chimney piece al Q degrees
Reamur, with windows that wouldn't shut,
and q marble floor without carpet =" that the
balmy air Of Italy (my tech chartered as put
it DOWN. would soon restore her and indeed
already she seemed TO feel the change" That
she did, for she was crouching over pan OF
charcoal ashes, with railroad wrapper over
her shoulders.
It's no uss going over whats in every ones
experience on first coming south of the Alps
the daily, hourly difficulty of not believing tba,
you have taken the wrong road and got into
Siberia and strapgest OF oil it s to see how
little he natives think of it. | declare | often
thought soap must be reirgerant, and wish
eome chemist would inquire into the matter.
" Are we ever to begin thi, blessed Ian
guage p said Mrs O'D. TO me, alter four days
Of close arrest-snow still falling and the ther.
mometer going daily down, down, lower and
lower Now had made inquiries the day be-
fore from he landlord, and LEARNED that he knew
OF most competent person, not exactly reg
ular teacher who would insist upon our going to
work in regular school fashion, but man Of
sense, and gentleman, indeed person OF rank
and title with whom the world bad gone some.
what badly and who was at that very moment
suffering for his political opinions, far in ad.
vance as they were, OF those Of bis age.
i" He's friend of Giobert,' whispered the
landlord in my eur, while his features became
animated with the must intense Significance
Now | had never 50 much as heard OF Globerti
but | felt it would be deep disgrace to confess
it, and so | only exclaimed with an air of half
incredibly" " Indeed |"
" Us true as I'm here" replied be. "He
usually drops 10 about noon to read the Opini.
one, and, ii you permit, III send him up to you.
HIS name Is Count Annibale Castrocaro."
fastened forthwith TO Mrs. oDowd to ap-
prise her Of the honor that awaited us repeat.
ing, a little IN sTfenss all that the host had
said, and finishing with the stunning announce.
ment, 4" and friend Of Gioberti." Mrs. OD.
never hinched under the shock, AID too proud
to own her ignorance, she pertly remarked,
don't thins the more Of him for that"
felt that she had beat me, and | sat down
abashed and humlialed. Meanwhile Mrs. CD.
re,ired to make somo change Of Jress but, re.
appearing after while IN her smartest morning
toilette, and q very coquettish little cap. with
cherry -colored ribbons | saw that. the word
Count had done at once.
Just as the clock struck twelve, the waiter
flung wide the double doors OF our room, and
announced, as pompously as though Tor royalty,
- II Sgnor Conte dl Castrocaro," and there en-
tered man, slightly STOPPING in the shoulders,
with prolsuion OF the very backest hair on
his neck and shoulders, his age anything from
thirty.6ve to forty.eght, and his dress shabby
blue surtoul, buttOned to the throat and reach
lng below the knees lie bowed and slid, and
bowed again, till he came opposite where my
vile sat, and then, with rather a dramatic sort
OF grace, he lifted her hand to his lips and kissed
il. She Redeemed little, but saw she wasnt
displeased with the air Of homage that accom-
panied the ceremony, and she begged him u be
seated.
own was disappointed with the count, his
hair was so greasy, and his hands 30 dirty, and
his general get-up % uncared for but Mrs.
0D. talked away very pleasantly with HIM, and
he replied in his own broken English. making
little grimaces and smiles and gestures, and some
very tender glances to duty where bis parts Of
speech failed him. L. fscl, watched him as a
sort of physiological phenomenon, and arrived
ut the conclusion that this friend Of Gioberti's
was very clever artist
All was speedily settled for the lessons-hour,
terms and mode of instruction. IL was to be
entirely conversational, With little theme
writing, no getting by heart, no irrep ular verbs,
no declensions, no genders. did beg hard for
little grammar, but he would't hear Of il. 1t
was against his " system, 80 gave in.
/ We began the next day, but the Count almost
| ignored me altogether, directing almost all his
a.teutlOns to Mrs 0'D. and as had already
rome small knowledge of the elemen airy part Of
the language, WAS just as we'll pleased that
she should come up, us il we're, to my level
/ From this cause | often walked of before the
/ lesson was over and sometimes, indeed, skulk
cd It altogether, fading tho system, us well as
GlobertPs tiend to be an unconscionable bore.
Mrs. U d., on the contrary, displayed an indus.
try never believed her to possess, aud would
pass whole evenings over her exercises, which
often covered several sheets OF letter paper.
We had now been about five weeks 10 Turin
when my brother wrote to requett me to come
back as speedily rs could, that case in which
held brief was high in the cause. list, an !
would ha tried v.rv ea rlv In ,ha .n..;on oun