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Title: Italian letters of a diplomat's wife, January-May 1880, February-April, 1904
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Waddington, Mary King
Subjects: Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Scribnr
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e had been anxiousto see; also Visconti Venosta. He was naturally (like allthe men) charmed with Madame Minghetti. She musthave been beautiful, and has an extraordinary charm ofmanner. The Cairolis are a very big couple. He is talland broad, fine eyes—she, too, on a large scale, but hand-some. Of course there were many inquiries from all theold friends for la maman and the family generally. Mrs.Bruce says she never drives in the Doria-Pamphili withoutthinking of you driving about in your plain black dressand bonnet, with two or three daughters (not quite soplainly dressed) in the carriage, and all always talkingand laughing, and enjoying life together. I told herabout Florence, where the King of Italy always bowedto you in the Cascine, evidently taking you for the supe-rior of some religious order (he must have thought thenovices were lively), and the children in the street usedto run up to you and kiss your hand. He was quiteright, to bow to you, she said, my grand old Repub-lican.
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11 .2 i88o) OF A DIPLOMATS WIFE ^2 March 4, 1880. Yesterday we went again to the Vatican. W. isquite happy, I thought I should never get him away. Itis most amusing to walk about old Rome with him, forsuddenly over a gateway or at the bottom of an ordinarylittle court he discovers an inscription or a slab, or an oldstone which he knows all about, and we stop. He reads,and recognises, and translates to me, and is wildly inter-ested. It is all so good for him, and puts politics andlittle annoyances out of his head. It is quite new for meto see Rome from a classical point de vue, but I supposeone enjoys things differently as one grows older. I cer-tainly enjoyed the mad gallops over the Campagna in theold days; do you remember Mrs. S. who was so severewith us—first because we were Americans (she was Eng-lish) and then because we knew everybody and enjoyedourselves ?— when she was young people came to Rometo educate themselves and enjoy the pictures, museums,historical associations, e

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