The innocents abroad, by Mark Twain: the voyage out |
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Side 245 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.
Side 130 - A palace lifting to eternal summer Its marble walls, from out a glossy bower Of coolest foliage, musical with birds, Whose songs should syllable thy name!
Side 203 - Here, now, what do you mean by such conduct as this! Playing us for Chinamen because we are strangers and trying to learn! Trying to impose your vile secondhand carcasses on us! Thunder and lightning, I've a notion to — to — if you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out! Or, by George, we'll brain you!
Side 202 - No — that statement will hardly wash. We are just from America ourselves. We heard nothing about it. Christopher Colombo— pleasant name— is— is he dead?" "Oh, corpo di Baccho!— three hundred year!
Side 203 - He came to the hotel this morning to ask if we were up, and he endeavoured, as well as he could, to describe us, so that the landlord would know which persons he meant. He finished with the casual remark that we were lunatics. The observation was so innocent and so honest that it amounted to a very good thing for a guide to say.
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Side 203 - We came very near expressing interest, sometimes— even admiration— it was very hard to keep from it. We succeeded though. Nobody else ever did, in the Vatican museums. The guide was bewildered— nonplussed. He walked his legs off, nearly, hunting up extraordinary things, and exhausted all his ingenuity on us, but it was a failure; we never showed any interest in anything.
Side 199 - Enough, enough, enough! Say no more ! Lump the whole thing ! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo I" I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.