Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 · New York : Century · leaf 120
ng 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 can convey the charm of this ex-quisite… … SIENESE VILLAS unchanging verdure. Imagination must people thestage with the sylvan figures of the Aniinta or thePastor Fido, 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…
