Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates, 1878-1952 · New York, Longmans, Green · leaf 389
his duties in his interest to explain to us theway to reach the opposite gate of the city, and oncepast we go tranquilly on to our hotel without havingbag or baggage disturbed or inspected. Florence, to me, is like a wonderful old lady whoshows the traces of great beauty, but who has beensurrounded… … AND COUNTRY SEATS part — the river, the Ponte Vecchio, the old palaces, somany of which, unfortunately, have been torn down— is always beautiful and always fascinating, and thesurrounding hills of the Apennines are exquisite toeternity; but the city itself, where we go every day,has so submitted to…
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