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hearty English cheer, which evidently elicited his 

 attention, for he bowed most graciously to us. 

 " There's balm in Gilead yet," said I, and my 

 thoughts veered back to the past, when I recalled to 

 mind the enthusiastic vivas his antagonist, Admiral 

 Persano, received upon his arrival at Naples with 

 the fleet, some days after it had been occupied by 

 the Garibaldini. If these Neapolitans did not 

 prove to have much stomach for fighting, at any 

 rate they beat creation at shouting, and can keep 

 it up for any length of time, too. Like most 

 things in Italy that cost nothing, you can get plenty 

 of it. 



As the stream passed, I was much struck with 

 the extreme beauty of the fairer sex, whose per- 

 sonal attractions are not to be equalled in any 

 capital of Europe, save, perhaps, our own. Their 

 toilette was unexceptionable, evincing great taste, 

 and proving that " the mode-handerlin " of Vienna 

 are in no way excelled by the most fashionable 

 modistes of Paris. Their types of beauty were so 

 varied, and such diversity of character was de- 

 picted in their countenances, that for some time I 

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