Excerpt from The Countess Bettina: The History of an Innocent Scandal Florence, stopped two days at Genoa, and then went on up to Mentone, where I intended to wait a week, the season being over, entirely by myself. My appointment with Lord Burton, he being on his return from India, was for the first week in June. My hardships in the Bal kan peninsula, and the fever following, had left me not unwilling to avail myself of a few restful days with nobody at all around. Mentone was the spot for my mood. Should I wish Monte ...
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Excerpt from The Countess Bettina: The History of an Innocent Scandal Florence, stopped two days at Genoa, and then went on up to Mentone, where I intended to wait a week, the season being over, entirely by myself. My appointment with Lord Burton, he being on his return from India, was for the first week in June. My hardships in the Bal kan peninsula, and the fever following, had left me not unwilling to avail myself of a few restful days with nobody at all around. Mentone was the spot for my mood. Should I wish Monte Carlo was not far removed on the Corniche drive, or a quarter hour by rail. As it happened the town proved almost too quiet, too much deserted. The hotels were closed, and Dorsey and myself had almost de cided our only resource was to try a lodging, when the man in Cook's suggested one hotel on the upper terrace with a far stretching ex panse of blue sea, gray in the distance. That afternoon the sun beat down. The roses clam bered into the windows. Monsieur, a Swiss, was sorry, but he was fearful Monsieur would not be pleased to have to leave certainly Tues day. He only had six guests left. A little woman with crocheting, sitting on the porch, overhearing this, arose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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