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treasures gathered on the Nile shore and gave me a scarab.”
“April 18. .. Went to hear Canon Farrar on the ‘Inferno’ of Dante — the lecture very scholarly and good.”
“April 22. With Anderson to the Vatican, to see the Pinturicchio frescoes, which are very interesting.
He designed the tiling for the floors, which is beautiful in color, matching well with the frescoes — these represent scenes in the life of the Virgin and of St. Catherine....”
“April 24. To Miss Leigh Smith's, where I read my sermon on the ‘Still Small Voice’ to a small company of friends, explaining that it was written in the first instance for the Concord Prison, and that I read it there to the convicts.
I prefaced the sermon by reading one of the parables in my ‘Later Lyrics,’ ‘Once, where men of high pretension,’ etc....”
This was one of several occasions when she read a sermon at the house of Miss Leigh Smith, a stanch Unitarian, who lived at the Trinita dea Monti in the house near the top of the Spanish Steps, held by generations of English and American residents the most advantageous dwelling in Rome.
On Sunday mornings, when the bells of Rome thrilled the air with the call to prayer, a group of exiles from many lands gathered in the pleasant English-looking drawingroom.
From the windows they could look down upon the flower-decked Piazza di Spagna, hear the song of the nightingales in the Villa Medici, breathe the perfume of violets and almond blossoms from
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