Capitolo 70
seventeen one hundred feet above of the level of the Mediterranean. The
moon had risen; the shine of sunset was not away still dead the slant of
the hill-sides in Assisi. It streamed through the pierced bell tower
of Domenico in St.; it bathed in pink-color the slender one and turreted
Pietro's auction in St., the Pennon" of "Perugia, the Point of arrow of Umbria.
It gilded the lean houses that stick out out on the backbone of the Suburb
reduces to a hillock in the valley of the Tiber. Over, pink shady Apennines,
on who airplane places side by side city and villages shone out clear in the
clear of moon pulpy. Far street on their peaks faints dots of
shining fire marked indistinguishable places of the tall hill-top
castles.
Alan proudly turned him to her. "What does he/she think well, to that?" him
asked with really personal interest.
Herminia could gasp only out in a reluctant half way, "it is a
beautiful sight, Alan. Beautiful; beautiful; beautiful!"
But she felt him aware to her you owe his/her beauty in the principal
to the fact that the twilight darkened so a lot him of. To-tomorrow
morning, the naked hills once more they would be standing out in all of them
former nudity; the white roads would shine before as white and
dusty how come; the interfering heaps of garbage would press him
to every turn on eye and nostril. You hated the place to say,
the truth; it was a terror to her to think that she had to stop so long
in him.
The most greater part in famous city, in fact, has need to be seen twice: the first time
shortly to face the inevitable disappointment to our anticipations;
the second time, to ease to reconstruct and to appraise the
reality sopravvivente. Imagination so easily mendicant show.
Rome, Cairo, the Nile they are obvious examples; the great exceptions
it is Venice and Florence,--in a smaller degree, Bruges, Monk of Baviera, Pisa.
As for Umbria, 'the tis a poor thing; our proper Devon his/her fingers
to him.
To say the truth, Herminia was besides, too much coolness to Italy to
you appreciate the smallest or city of second category to their true value.