Columba

By Merimee, Prosper

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Title:	Columba
Author:	Merimee, Prosper
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
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Early in the month of October, 181-, Colonel Sir Thomas Nevil, a distinguished Irish officer of the English army, alighted with his daughter at the Hotel Beauveau, Marseilles, on their return from a tour in Italy. The perpetual and universal admiration of enthusiastic travelers has produced a sort of reaction, and many tourists, in their desire to appear singular, now take the /nil admirari/ of Horace for their motto. To this dissatisfied class the colonel?s only daughter, Miss Lydia, belonged. ?The Transfiguration? has seemed to her mediocre, and Vesuvius in eruption an effect not greatly superior to that produced by the Birmingham factory chimneys. Her great objection to Italy, on the whole, was its lack of local color and character. My readers must discover the sense of these expressions as best they may.