CHAPTER XXXIV

Italy Again

OCT. 24, 1903, Sailed in the Princess Irene for Genoa
at ii. Flowers and fruits from Mrs. Rogers and Mrs.
Coe. We have with us Katy Leary in our domestic service
22 years and Miss Margaret Sherry (trained nurse),

Mrs. Clemens had happy memories of Flor-
ence, and believed if she could be there again her
health would improve. Eleven years before they
had spent a winter at the beautiful Villa Viviani,
and her husband had written there a large por-
tion of his "Joan of Arc," her favorite of his
works.

Sunday Oct. 25. Heavy storm all night. Only two stew-
ardesses. Ours served sixty meals in rooms, this morning.

Tuesday Oct. 27. Livy is enduring the voyage mar-
velously well. As well as Clara and Jean, I think, and far
better than the trained nurse.

3 P.M. She has been out on deck an hour.

Oct. 28. Youth in smoking-chapel talking nursery Ger-
man in loud voice, to be heard and envied of men.—The
old familiar simple words of the textbook vocabulary,
uttered with painful distinctness. Yet there are those who
say there is no hell.

Thursday Oct. 29. Two men—a giant and a Shetland
pony—also a giraffe, six feet four, tramped the deck after

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