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g from work, or in their shops, or on their little farms; or at play or festival. At Domo d'ossola there was a charming fete, with fireworks, dances, and music for Our Lady of the Snows. He made me ask the peasants questions in their own language, for he was no linguist, as the world knows; but he got at the people quickly and often was himself his own and best interpreter. Nothing in all his travel delighted or interested him more than this going direct to the people themselves. It was Antaeus touching earth. But he was sufficiently courteous to those who thought themselves the great, when they came to offer him civilities. He was by no means indifferent to the evidences of his distinction. At a charming spot on one of the Italian lakes, where we staid for a day cr two, one evening after dinner a Princess was announced—a handsome, sumptuous woman, with a famous Russian name. She came across the lake in her boat through the twilight, with attendants and a female friend, and