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... the hot weather (it was early summer then) he had hired an old place on the Riviera, at an easy distance from my city, Genoa, on the road to Nice. Di... ... him, only last night, that if she was to find a picture of that face in our Italian house (which she is afraid she will) she did not know how she cou... ...it was a stormy dismal evening when we, at last, approached that part of the Riviera. It thundered; and the thunder of my city and its environs, rolli... ... Marionetti. The pretty little one was charmed with all she saw. She learnt Italian heavens! miraculously! Was mistress quite forgetful of that d...

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..., to abstain from the discus sion of any such questions with any order of Italians, so I would rather not enter on the inquiry now. During my twelve ... ...onstantly lying down, and surfeiting them selves with vine leaves—perfect Italian cows enjoying the Dolce Far’ Niente all day long. They are presided... ...treets are as narrow as any thor oughfare can well be, where people (even Italian people) are supposed to live and walk about; being mere lanes, with... ...kulking through the streets of Genoa, or droning away their lives in other Italian towns. Perhaps the Cappuccini, though not a learned body, are, as a... ...ves. Although such a custom may be liable to the abuse atten dant on many Italian customs, of being recognised as a means of establishing a current a... ... head, like a pad to carry loads on, are so intensely ugly, both along the Riviera, and in Genoa, too, that, seen straggling about in dim door ways wi...

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...is fatigue and anxiety and hurrying off to the south. He’s on his way to the Riviera and I’ve not yet heard from him. But it’s not likely he’ll ever o... ...e interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo, on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull, bright wint... ...la overhung the slope of its hill and the long valley of the Arno, hazy with Italian colour. It had a narrow garden, in the man ner of a terrace, pro... ...ind; and the tall iron lattices admitted on occasion more than enough of the Italian sunshine. 188 Portrait of a Lady It was moreover a seat of ease,... ...If he had English blood in his veins it had probably received some French or Italian commixture; but he suggested, fine gold coin as he was, no stamp n... ...ell, my dear, what do you think of it?” he asked the young girl. He used the Italian tongue, and used it with perfect ease; but this would not have co...

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... fatigue and anxiety and hurrying off to the south. He’s on his way to the Riviera and I’ve not yet heard from him. But it’s not likely he’ll ever obj... ...interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo, on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull, bright winter... ... overhung the slope of its hill and the long valley of the Arno, hazy with Italian colour. It had a narrow garden, in the manner of a terrace, product... ...d; and the tall iron lattices admitted on occasion more than enough of the Italian sunshine. It was moreover a seat of ease, indeed of luxury, telling... ... he had English blood in his veins it had probably received some French or Italian commixture; but he suggested, fine gold coin as he was, no stamp no... ...my dear, what do you think of it?” he asked of the young girl. He used the Italian tongue, and used it with perfect ease; but this would not have conv...

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...d drew his next remark to Fenellan. ‘How Wagner seems to have stricken the Italians! Well, now, the Germans have their Emperor to head their armies, a... ...ther in Sapho-delicious. I held out against Wagner as long as I could. The Italians don’t much more than Wagnerize in exchange for the loss of melody.... ...r Conquerors that twenty times the stake is not a dream of the past!’ ‘The Riviera green field on the rock is always open to you,’ said Victor. She pu... ...e Rev. Septimus Barmby. We have nothing to be ashamed of in her, before an Italian Operatic singer! Ices after the first part is over. CHAPTER XXI DAR... ...ckets: she was not so particularly slim; never knew how to dress. You beat Italians there! She moved one as a youngster.’ ‘Eton boys are so susceptibl... ...nd took and gave hints upon City and Commercial affairs, while the honeyed Italian of the con- ventional, gloriously animal, stress and flutter had a ...

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...place to take one’s yacht to in winter but that other played-out hole, the Riviera. From the outskirts of this group Glennard wandered to an- other, w... ...ame up and looked over his shoulders. “That’s a bit of Stendhal—one of the Italian sto- ries—and here are some letters of Balzac to Madame Commanville... ...t a bronze Bacchus who drooped his garlanded head above the pediment of an Italian cabinet. “What ought I to do? Y ou’re just the fellow to advise me....

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...(in the coin his friend selected) they set out again to view the town. The Italian gentleman, who called himself Count Rialto, appeared to have a very... ... painting, married a rich widow, and established himself in a villa on the Riviera. (Though I rather thought it would have been Rome or Florence.) “Th... ...t till three years later that, in the course of a few weeks’ idling on the Riviera, it suddenly occurred to me to wonder why Gisburn had given up his ... ... I felt it might be interesting to find out why. The desultory life of the Riviera lends itself to such purely academic speculations; and having, on m...

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...place to place to help her to get better. But she never did. To the deadly Riviera (I hate it!) to the high Alps, to Algiers, and far away—a hideous j... ... white marble, the entablature of which was adorned with a delicate little Italian “subject.” There was another in the wall that faced it, and, thanks...

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...man with political ambi- tions and vast estates; or, for second choice, an Italian prince with a castle in the Apennines and an hereditary office in t... ...ears since she had wavered in imagination between the English earl and the Italian prince? Relentlessly her mind travelled on over the dreary interval... ...you know—puts me through a course of this every winter. It isn’t so bad on Italian nights—then she comes late, and there’s time to digest. But when th... ...splay of a festal assemblage as one of those airy pleasure-halls which the Italian architects impro- vised to set off the hospitality of princes. The ... ...not occurred to him that there was any chance of running across her on the Riviera, where the season was virtually at an end. As he leaned back, silen... ...t success, already thirsted for new kingdoms, and Mrs. Fisher, viewing the Riviera as an easy introduction to London society, had guided their course ... ...er at Aix ten years ago. It seems she was tremen- dously admired there. An Italian Prince, rich and the real thing, wanted to marry her; but just at t... ... of Titanic pessimism. How any one could come to such a damned hole as the Riviera—any one with a grain of imagina- tion—with the whole Mediterranean ... ...d George Dorset—that horrid little Dabham who does ‘Society Notes from the Riviera’—had been dining with us at Nice. And he’s telling everybody that y...

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...pecially watched by the police. “The ground floor consisted of a little Italian res- 73 Joseph Conrad taurant, of the flyblown sort. There was no ... ...of having some work to do. Her usual task was to correct the proofs of the Italian and French editions of the Alarm Bell and the Firebrand.” … “Heaven... ...istinctly communicative. He had tried various climates, of Abbazia, of the Riviera, of other places, too, he told me, but the only one which suited hi... ...laid out in grass plots, bushes, and flower-beds between the houses of the Riviera di Chiaja and the waters of the bay. Alleys of trees, more or less ... ...or less parallel, stretch its whole length — which is considerable. On the Riviera di Chiaja side the electric tramcars run close to the railings. Bet... ...n, officers in uniform; but what pre- dominated, he told me, was the South Italian type of young man, with a colourless, clear complexion, red lips, j... ...er. He seemed to belong to the better classes. What could I say? He was an Italian —I am a foreigner. Of course, I have my passport, and there is our ...

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...d. It was the judgement of the head-waiters and other functionaries on the Italian lakes that approved itself now as interested; they themselves had b... ... knock about. I’m to go to places.” “But not beastly ‘climates’—Engadines, Rivieras, bore- doms?” “No; just, as I say, where I prefer. I’m to go in fo... ...er finished to the finger-tips; for he was for ever carrying one well-kept Italian hand to his heart and plunging the other straight into her pocket, ... ...touched, sounded loud and not sweet, sounded any- thing and everything but Italian, but Venetian. The Vene- tian was all a dialect, he knew; yet it wa... ..., by a profundity, a true deviltry of resource, he always met the latter’s Italian with English and his English with Italian. He now, as usual, slight...

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...irl’s idle hands were only too happy to caress the pretty little shivering Italian greyhound rather than to be busy with a needle. “Do you ever hear o... ...ine of Dante— “Quando noi fermerem li nostri passi Su la triate riviera a’ Acheronte.” “Will your Majesty enter?” asked John Eyre. “Dr. Jon... ...er ought but false.” “They tell me,” said Sir Richard, “that ever since an Italian named Machiavel wrote his Book of the Prince, statecraft hath been ... ...as unbecoming English rusticity . The Princess Bride must speak French and Italian, perhaps Latin; and the girl, whose liter- ary education had stoppe... ...happy homesteads, and think of them ravaged by those furious Spaniards and Italians, whom my brother of Anjou himself called very fiends!” “Fiends are...

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...hty con- glomeration reappeared. He was a handsome young man, his touch of Italian blood showing just enough to give him a romantic air; and Sister Ph... ...the extensive marble works of Mr. White, who lived at Rocca Marina, in the Riviera. Mrs. Henderson had resided in Mr. Flight’s parish, and been a memb... ... Hubert 106 Modern Broods was eager for assistance in learning German and Italian, and read and discussed books of interest; and even when he had lef... ...would last a considerable time. Vera was much excited by the notion of the Italian jour- ney, and thought she ought to have been married at once and h... ...nights on his re- turn, and was exceedingly full of his tour, talking over Italian scenes and churches with Magdalen, who had never seen them, but had... ...ming place, a castle fit for Mrs. Radclyffe, with English comforts, and an Italian garden and an English village on the mountain side. My sister would...

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...he mid-day din- ner was two hours late-and proportionately bad—because the Italian cook was posing for Fulmer. Lansing’s first thought had been that m... ...chooses to sur- render herself momentarily to the unwholesome spell of the Italian decadence it is not for me to protest or to criticize. Her intellec... ...idden to ask for an answer; but Nick, knowing the friendly and inquisitive Italian mind, was almost sure that the boy, in the hope of catching a glimp... ...sh of their days, the feverish making of winter plans, hurrying off to the Riviera or St. Moritz, Egypt or New Y ork, there was no time to hunt up the...

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...y saw the black shape of a man. ‘Any one here?’ he asked, speaking with an Italian accent. The king broke into a cold perspiration. Then Pestovitch an... ..., may I hope to find—opportu- nity?’ Barnet made no reply. ‘Perhaps on the Riviera. Or at some such place as Hom- burg. Or some plague perhaps.’ ‘ All...

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...ndence with a number of cousins and friends, writing letters in a slanting Italian hand and dealing mainly with births, marriages and deaths, business... ...ses and fellow travel- lers, with my first essays in colloquial German and Italian, with disputes about the way to take, and other things that I will ... ...ial Free Masonry and Stock Exchange punting. Mostly they drifted about the Riviera. Her mother had contrived her marriage when she was eighteen. They ... ...e glorious freedoms. Margaret had missed Verona and Venice in her previous Italian journey—fear of the mosquito had driven her mother across Italy to ... ... that brooked no resistance, took him at once into a corner and showed him Italian photo- graphs by Coburn. We dispersed early. I walked with Britten ... ...argaret’s big silver- adorned, chintz-bright room, looking out on the trim Italian garden… . Yes, the beginning of it has escaped me altogether, but I...

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...elibacy , and the confes- sional, and purgatory: and in the darkness of an Italian cathedral, incense-laden and mysterious, I believe with all my hear... ... he looked upon nature) might liberate the soul from pain. They went to an Italian restaurant for luncheon and ordered themselves a fiaschetto of Chia... ...ilip went into his bed-room to wash. They dined in the neighbourhood in an Italian restaurant. Philip was cross and silent, but he quickly realised th... ...panish,” he said. “It is a noble tongue. It has not the mellifluousness of Italian, Italian is the language of tenors and or- gan-grinders, but it has... .... He had been on a tea plantation in Ceylon and a traveller in America for Italian wines; his secretaryship of the water company in Toledo had lasted ... ...Maugham sub-editor of a paper in the Midlands and editor of another on the Riviera. From all his occupa- tions he had gathered amusing anecdotes, whic...

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...t flow to and fro across the Atlantic of labourers from the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the sp... ... the British prosperous which winters either in the high Alps or along the Riviera. England is rap- idly developing the former Irish grievance of an a... ...d, to take another instance, among the hotel staffs of Switzerland and the Riviera—who live almost entirely upon British gold—those impassioned Britis... ...the matter. Half the money that goes out of England to Switzerland and the Riviera ought to go to the extremely amusing business of clearing up ugly c... ...ay, incessantly, the immigrants go, wild- eyed Gipsies, Armenians, Greeks, Italians, Ruthenians, Cos- sacks, German peasants, Scandinavians, a few Iri... ...of the Mediterranean arrivals, it has to be noted, and more especially the Italians, do not come to settle. They work for a season or a few years, and... ... atmosphere of the mill towns….” Children are deliberately imported by the Italians. I gath- ered from Commissioner Watchorn at Ellis Island that the ... ... him try and condemn a doubtful case. It was a particularly unat- tractive Italian in charge of a dull-eyed little boy of no ascertainable relationshi... ...nce in many incidental aspects of the smart American life of Paris and the Riviera. The evidence in the notorious Thaw trial, after one has discounted...

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... By the way, that is a feature in art which seems to have come in with the Italians. Y our old Greek statues have scarce enough vitality in them to ke... ...a really admirable appear- ance of offended dignity, she said something in Italian which made everybody laugh much. It was explained to me that she ha... ...e been still in the house since I wrote, and I have worked. I finished the Italian story; not well, but as well as I can just now; I must go all over ... ...d back-room, round a dirty tablecloth, with Francois the baker, perhaps an Italian fisherman, perhaps Augustin Dutra, and Simoneau himself. Simoneau, ... ...n a conspiracy with the American editor, a French restau- rant-man, and an Italian fisherman against the Padre. The enclosed poster is my last literar... ...ner among the palms. Y es, it is like old times to be writing you from the Riviera, and after all that has come and gone who can predict any- thing? H...

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...etty little Greek to make the pru- dent very glad that her home was on the Italian mountains. Gillian was always Mrs. Henderson’s friend, but Gillian’... ...ere were to be the very graceful and beauti- ful articles of sculpture and Italian bijouterie that the Whites had sent home, and that were spared from... ..., would have the charge of the stall, with Gillian and two other girls, in Italian peasant-dresses, sent home by Aunt Ada. Gillian was resolved on sta... ...an avers that she deceived my father, and had an old rascally tyrant of an Italian husband, who might have been alive when she married.” “Gerald!” Dol... ...hen I descended on Kalliope, and wasn’t she surprised! But I have a lovely Italian dress!” Kalliope Henderson looked more alarmed than gratified on th... ...ame cousin was a marquis, and that the society of San Remo, nay of all the Riviera and the Italian papers to boot, would know that she was a good deal...

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... as poor Londoners in November when they receive letters from the sapphire Riviera. ‘I will venture to guess at nonsense,’ he answered. ‘Nothing polit... ...n electrifying splendour of tone and style. ‘But it’s the very heart of an Italian you sing with!’ he cried. ‘It will surprise you perhaps to hear tha... ...fluous love-song from a popular Opera somewhat out of date. ‘Well, it’s in Italian!’ she summed up her impressions of the sickly words while scanning ... ...nd work for his fellows. ‘Now does not that touch you more deeply than the Italian?’ said she, delicately mouth- ing: ‘I, mio tradito amor!’ ‘T ouch, ... ...served him listening, and by degrees she distinguished a maundering of the Italian song she had one day sung to Patrick in his brother’s presence. ‘I ... ... to be paid instantly, and they beheld a flashing of white teeth and heard Italian accents. The monkey saluted militarily, but with painful suggestion...

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...ith water. They were made in five weeks, by the Count von Küffstein and an Italian mystic and rosicrucian, the Abbé Geloni. The bottles were closed wi... ...to be happy.’ 117 Maugham Susie had meant to pass the later spring on the Riviera, but when she heard that the Haddos were there, she hesitated. She ... ...o them. This was Arbuthnot, an eye spe cialist, whom Susie had met on the Riviera and who, she presently discovered, was a colleague of Arthur’s at S...

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...ed her mother. “It is perfectly correct,” said Janet, “studied from an old Italian costume.” “The Marchioness of Carabbas, in my old fairy-tale book. ... ...d Delrio, daughter of an Englishwoman and a German waiter, and widow of an Italian courier, who was equal to all land emergencies, and could speak any... ... there was the first summer, when, just as we got back to London after our Italian winter, poor Armie had such a dreadful attack on the lungs, that Dr... ... move, we had to take him to Bournemouth, to get strength for going to the Riviera. I can say now that I never did expect to bring him back again! But... ...g tale of modern life, or a historical story in which his familiarity with Italian art and scenery would 434 Magnum Bonum be available. Jock advised ...