OUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN 



pretty, has been the scene of a similar domestic event 

 which makes the contrast still more poignant. A little 

 Eve, in fact, has been born into 

 our small garden of Eden. She 

 has received a joyful welcome. 

 That most attractive child, black- 

 eyed Adam Junior, with the 

 mysterious intuitition of child- 

 hood had recently been bom- 

 barding heaven for a little 

 sister. He is now thrilled and 

 triumphant at the success of 

 "his prayers. We personally 

 are quite pleased with the 

 addition to the famiglia. 

 We wonder whether it is 

 because of the Italian atmo- 

 sphere that has so unaccount- 

 ably descended on Villino 

 Loki that we and our estab- 

 lishment are really falling into 

 relations not unlike those which so 

 happily subsist between master and 

 servant in Italy. The Master is not master, but Father-in- 

 chief / the servant are not servants, but members of his 

 family the famiglia. 



We were afraid our last winter in Rome had spoilt us 

 for English ways. We had a delightful famiglia there. 

 Fioravanti di Rienzo, the pearl of cooks / Camillo Lanti, 

 the clever, busy, and quite reasonably peculating butler ,- 

 and Aristide <surname unknown), the superb coachman, 

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