Penelope's Postscripts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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page 51 of 119 (42%)
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called mineral water we use at table is specially still and dead,
and we think it may have been compared to its disadvantage with other more sparkling beverages, since every bottle bears a printed label announcing, "To Distrust of the mineral waters too foaming, since that they do invariable spread the Stomach." We learn also by studying another bottle that "The Wermouth is a white wine slightly bitter, and parfumed with who leso me aromatic herbs." Who leso me we printed in italics in our own minds, giving the phrase a pure Italian accent until we discovered that it was the somewhat familiar adjective "wholesome." In one of the smaller galleries we were given the usual pasteboard fans bearing explanations of the frescoes:- Room I. In the middle. The sin of our fathers. On every side. The ovens of Babylony. Moise saved from the water. Room II. In the middle. Moise who sprung the water. On every side. The luminous column in the dessert and the ardent wood. Room III. In the middle. Elia transported in the heaven. On every side. Eliseus dispansing brods. Room IV. The wood carvings are by Anonymous. The tapestry shows the multiplications of brods and fishs. |
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