Past Hours: Recollections of the Life of Joseph Heywood, And Some of His ...
Past Hours: Recollections of the Life of Joseph Heywood, And Some of His ...
Adelaide Kemble Sartoris
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Colonel St. John was to hear from them immedi- ately upon their arrival. He had never seen Italy, and had determined to make his desire to visit that country a pretext for following, with as little delay as possible, those who now made up to him the sum and substance of what is understood by the words — family, home, happiness. Digitized by VjOOQIC 148 Past Hours, He waited more than a month for this pro- mised letter ; and then, sick of the sickness of hope long deferred, sailed straight for N...aples. At the Conservatoire, at the post-office, at the Pollzia, he made inquiries, but could learn nothing. After a couple of months spent in fruitless anxiety and vain suspense, he started for Rome. Here too, he was equally unsuc- cessful. From Rome he proceeded to Florence; but nowhere could he obtain news of the travel- lers. What was his amazement one day at Florence on finding the following passage in a Galigfiani two or three weeks old : it was in a paragraph which gave an account of an Easter piece that had been recently produced at the Adelphi, and ran thus : — " Nothing can exceed the magnificence of the decorations, and the splendour of the trans- formations.
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