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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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d to a lowerpath bordered with miniature groves of hyacinth, whosedense sweetness, mingled with that of heliotrope, filledthe air. Here Margaret seated herself to enjoy thefragrance and sunshine, while we went onward, com-ing to a magnificent array of primulas, rank upon rank,in every shade of delicate and gorgeous coloring, apomp of tints against a background of ferns. Belowwas a little vine-covered terrace with thick, soft, Eng-lish grass for its velvet flooring; here was another par-adisiacal little seat, like the one where we had left Mar-garet, overlooking the blue sea. On terraces abovewere camellias, roses, and numberless other blossoms,mingled with tropical plants and curious growths ofcacti; behind was a lemon grove rising a little higher;then the background of gray rocks from which all thisbeauty had been won inch by inch; then the greatpeaks of the mountain amphitheatre against the sky—in all, beauty enough for a thousand gardens here con-centrated in one enchanting spot.
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51 That picturesque village on the height is Grimaldi,said Verney. 11 The original home of the clowns, I suppose, saidBaker. English and Americans always say that; they cannever think of anything but the great circus Hamlet,replied Verney. In reality, however, Grimaldi is oneof the oldest of the noble names on this coast — thefamily name of the Princes of Monaco. Who are worse than clowns, said the Professor,sternly. The Grimaldi who was a clown at least hon-estly earned his bread, but the Grimaldis of the presentday live by the worst dishonesty. Monaco, formerlycalled the Port of Hercules, may now well be called thePort of Hell. Well, said Inness, if Monaco, on one side of us,represents llnferno, Bordighera, on the other, repre-sents Paradiso, and so we are saved. It depends upon which way you go, young man,said the Professor, still sternly. After a while we came back to the bench among thehyacinths where we had left Margaret, and found Lloydwith her, looking at the sea; the lovely

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