[131] From "Southern Italy."
[132] From "Central Italy."
[133] From "Central Italy."
[134] From "Northern Italy."
[135] Ruskin, in his "Præterita," describes his father's astonishment when he brought the maid of honour's petticoat, parrot, and blackamoor home, as the best fruit of his summer at the court of Sardinia.
[136] From "Northern Italy."
[137] Walter Savage Landor was tried for libel at the suit of a lady, to whom he had once shown great kindness, but of whom he had afterwards written abusively. He fled from England to evade the severe fine imposed upon him, which, however, was afterwards paid.
[138] Wordsworth, Lines written in Thomson's "Castle of Indolence."
[139] She had passed some time at Neuchâtel with her father in 1818, and had seen much of the society there.
[140] The Marquise de Gabriac was daughter of the Maréchale Sebastiani, and only sister of Madame Davidoff.