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From the same place his family reported:—
He suffers very much from not being allowed to tip everybody; but after being suppressed all the time in Tangier, on our way to the boat there a handsome little Moorish girl smiled on him, and walked along with him smiling still, and the guide was n't looking, and he was lost.
We were detained at Castellamare for several weeks on account of an illness of our daughter Margaret.
A letter, dated April 19, says of the invalid:—
She is drinking a kind of local mineral water, prescribed by Pliny!! Some one suggested that a later endorsement might be valuable!
We have to superintend the goat's milking morn and night and we do it from an upstairs window.
The goat bleats, and then we go. Angelo stands by her with a silver tray, the “fat boy” (son of the former head-waiter who was murdered by the former cook) helps hold her contrary head, and the owner milks into a little pitcher.
When convalescence came, the interesting
Swedish doctor and author,
Munthe, advised us to go to
Sorrento and then to
Capri where he said
Andrews and
Coleman (American author and artist) would take care of us till he came.
Dr. Munthe had a villa there, but just then was in
Rome in charge of the future
King of
Sweden.
‘At
Sorrento,’ wrote
Colonel Higginson, ‘we called on
Marion Crawford the novelist who has a perfectly beautiful villa and ’
