Sea, sky, and moon-crowned mountain, one fair world,One of the great pleasures of this Roman visit was the presence of her nephew Francis Marion Crawford. He was then twenty-three years old, and extremely handsome; some people thought him like the famous bas-relief of Antinous at the Villa Albano. The most genial and companionable of men, he devoted himself to his aunt and was her guide to the trattoria
Past, Present, Future, one Eternity.
Divine and human and informing soul,
The mystic Trine thought never can resolve.
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son of the latter.
The King entered soon after twohe took the oath standing bareheaded, then signed some record of it. The oath was then administered to Prince Amadeo and Prince de Carignan, then in alphabetical order to the Senate and afterwards to the Deputies.”
A month later, Pio Nono laid down the burden of his years.
She says of this:--
“Pope Pius IX had reigned too long to be deeply mourned by his spiritual subjects, one of whom remarked in answer to condolence, ‘I should think he had lived long enough!’
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The winter passed swift as a dream, though not without anxieties.
Roman fever was then the bane of American travellers, and while she herself suffered only from a slight indisposition, Maud was seriously ill. There was no time for her Journal, but some of the impressions of that memorable season are recorded in verse.
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. 1916.
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