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Title: Mentone, Cairo and Corfu
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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at she would say next. After breakfast we sat awhile in the garden, wherethere were palm, lemon, and orange trees, high woodybushes of heliotrope, grotesque growth of cactus, andthe great gray-blue swords of the century-plant. Be-fore us stretched the sea. Even if we had not knownit, we should have felt sure that its waters laved trop-ical shores somewhere, and that it was the reflection ofthose far skies which we caught here. Miss Graves now joined us, with an acquaintance shehad discovered, a Mrs. Clary, who had spent severalwinters at Mentone, and who adored every stone ofit. This phrase, which no doubt sounded well comingfrom Mrs. Clary, who was an impulsive person, with finedark eyes and expressive mobile face, assumed a com-ical aspect when repeated by the sober voice of MissGraves. Mrs. Clary, laughing, hastened to explain;and Miss Graves, noticing Mrs. Trescott on a bench inthe shade, where she and her laces had floated down,said, warningly, I should advise you to rise; I have
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A STREET IN THE OLD TOWN 15 just learned that the shade of Mentone is of the mostdeadly nature, and to be avoided like a scorpion. Mrs. Trescott and her laces floated up. Is itdamp V she asked, alarmed. No, replied Miss Graves, it is not damp. It doesnot know how to be damp at Mentone. But the shadeis deadly, all the same. Now in Florida it was other-wise. And she went into the house to get a whiteumbrella. Matildas temperament is really Alpine, said Mrs.Clary, smiling. I have always felt that she would becold even in heaven. In that case, said Baker, she might try— Buthe had the grace to stop. What is it about the shade ? I asked. Only this, said Mrs. Clary: as the warmth isdue to the heat of the sun, and not to the air, which iscool, there is more difference between the sunshine andshade here than we are accustomed to elsewhere. Butsurely it is a small thing to remember. The treasure ofMentone is its sunshine : in it, safety; out of it, danger. Like Mr. Micawbers income, said Marg

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