Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 92
ows ofclipped cypresses, each advancing a few feet beyond theone before it, so that they form a perspective runningup to the back of the stage, and terminated by the tallshaft of a single cypress which towers high into theblue in the exact centre of the background. No meredescription of its plan… … SIENESE VILLAS unchanging verdure. Imagination must people thestage with the sylvan figures of the Aminta or thePastor Pido, and must place on the encircling seats acompany of nobil donne in pearls and satin, with theircavaliers in the black Spanish habit and falling lacecollar which Vandyke has…
