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we never were so faithfully or well served as by 

 Italians ; and none are more ingenious in turning 

 their hands to anything, and in never objecting to 

 do this or that, as not what they were hired for, a 

 great quality for people who, like ourselves, keep 

 few servants. After a time they identify them- 

 selves with the family they serve, as my faithful 

 Luigi has done with all his heart. I am sincerely 

 attached to him. 



***** 

 In the spring, when I had recovered, my son and 

 his wife came to Spezia, and we all went to Flo- 

 rence, where we had the pleasure of seeing many old 

 friends. We returned to Spezia, and my son and 

 his wife left us to go back to England, intending to 

 meet us again somewhere the following spring. I 



little thought we never should meet again. 



My son sent his sisters a beautiful little cutter, built 

 by Mr. Forrest in London, which has been a great 

 resource to them. I always insist on their taking a 

 good sailor with them, although I am not in the 

 least nervous for their safety. Indeed, small as the 

 "Frolic" is and she is only about twenty-eight 

 feet from stem to stern she has weathered some 

 stiff gales gallantly, as, for instance, when our friend, 

 Mr. Montague Brown, British consul at Genoa, 

 Bailed her from Genoa to Spezia in very bad 



