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Title: The Argosy
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887 Wood, Charles W. (Charles William), b. 1850?
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Publisher: London (etc.) R. Bentley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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emotion. Loud voices are de rigueur : the Italians are nothing if notloud; and perhaps when they are loudest they are least dangerous. By the roadside there were picturesque stalls kept by equallypicturesque vendors: stalls artistically arranged, lighted up withcunningly devised lanterns which threw out shadows with weird and In Sunny Climes. 317 lost telling effect. The faces of the girls in their costumes : somerearing the well-known Neapolitan head-dress, others with nothingdoming their small, shapely heads but simply braided hair: were
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Last Day of Pompeii. ought out in vivid reliet by these flambeaux and lanterns ; faces pretty and sparkling as their white teeth gleamed and their dark2s flashed, that one longed for the genius of a Schalcken to im-)rtalise them upon canvas.AH passed away, and we came down to the level of the sea, or 318 In Sumiy Climes, very nearly so, and found ourselves on the Chiaja. It was quitedark now, and Mauleverer, striking his repeater, found we had onlyfive minutes grace before table dhote would commence. But we were even now at the hotel, and in a moment found our-selves within its pleasant portals. The Grand Hotel at Naplesalways strikes me as being one of the perfect hotels of the world.It is so well organised, so quietly managed, so admirably appointed,that it is worth visiting Naples only to stay there. Its situation atthe end of the Chiaja, looking down the broad thoroughfare, couldnot be improved. The whole Bay lies stretched before you. Within a few feet ofyou the blue waters toss

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