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But Rome, within the walls, at this dreaded season, enjoys its festal

days, and makes itself merry with characteristic and hereditary

pas-times, for which its broad piazzas afford abundant room It leads

its own life with a freer spirit, now that the artists and foreign

visitors are scattered abroad No bloom, perhaps, would be visible in

a cheek that should be unvisited, throughout the su winds than any within fifty miles of the city; no blooy, a subdued and colorless

well-being There was consequently little risk in Hilda's purpose to

pass the suhts

in that aerial chamber, whither the heavy breath of the city and its

suburbs could not aspire It would probably harht the sa came, flen into the narrow streets, about their daily

business, as Hilda likewise did

With the Virgin's aid and blessing, which iously lit the lairl would sleep securely in her old Roes without dread or peril In view of such

a summer, Hilda had anticipated many months of lonely, but unalloyed

enjoyment Not that she had a churlish disinclination to society, or

needed to be told that we taste one intellectual pleasure twice, and