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... Italian - for like most English youths brought up in Italy , he is a good linguist ; he has this delicious place to roam about in , and is just now entirely free to come and go . But can he be happy ? We are much mistaken in the ...
... Italian - for like most English youths brought up in Italy , he is a good linguist ; he has this delicious place to roam about in , and is just now entirely free to come and go . But can he be happy ? We are much mistaken in the ...
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... Italy , was to arrive on the morrow . Paul rose at six , and throwing up the window of his bed - room before he had finished dressing , leaned upon the marble sill , and gazed fixedly upon each object in the splendid landscape before ...
... Italy , was to arrive on the morrow . Paul rose at six , and throwing up the window of his bed - room before he had finished dressing , leaned upon the marble sill , and gazed fixedly upon each object in the splendid landscape before ...
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... Italian and history a very worthy priest , a cer- tain Dom Marini , attached to the cathedral church of Fiesole ; and often had he taken his historical lesson upon the very spot where some important event had occurred . Eagerly also had ...
... Italian and history a very worthy priest , a cer- tain Dom Marini , attached to the cathedral church of Fiesole ; and often had he taken his historical lesson upon the very spot where some important event had occurred . Eagerly also had ...
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... Italian , and had eagerly studied many books of geography and his- tory . These things were unknown to Pietrino . He could read a little , it is true , and write less , and that was all . Under Paul's tuition , however — for Paul loved ...
... Italian , and had eagerly studied many books of geography and his- tory . These things were unknown to Pietrino . He could read a little , it is true , and write less , and that was all . Under Paul's tuition , however — for Paul loved ...
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... Italy . He keeps two horses , and therefore lets me ride one whenever I please , and as Giorgio , the groom , has other things to do , I go out very often alone , for Mr. Freeman is engaged till six in his office . I take great plea ...
... Italy . He keeps two horses , and therefore lets me ride one whenever I please , and as Giorgio , the groom , has other things to do , I go out very often alone , for Mr. Freeman is engaged till six in his office . I take great plea ...
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