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all the while in a tremble of excitement about one thing 

 or another ; she was so disconsolate if left at home, that 

 she went everywhere with us. She visited the picture- 

 galleries, the museums, and all the approved sights of Flor- 

 ence, and improved her mind as much as many other 

 young ladies who do the same. 



Then we removed from Florence to Rome, and poor Flo 

 was direfully^ sea-sick on board the steamboat, in company 

 with all her young mistresses, but recovered herself at 

 Civita Vecchia, and entered Rome in high feather. There 

 she settled herself complacently in our new lodgings, which 

 were far more spacious and elegant than those we had left 

 in Florence, and began to claim her little rights in all the 

 sight-seeing of the Eternal City. 



She went with us to palaces and to ruins, scrambling up 

 and down, hither and thither, with the utmost show of in- 

 terest. She went up all the stairs to the top of the Capi- 

 tol, except the very highest and last, where she put on 

 airs, whimpered, and professed such little frights, that her 

 mistress was forced to carry her ; but once on top, she 

 barked from right to left, now at the snowy top of old 

 Soracte, now at the great, wide, desolate plains of the 

 Campagna, and now at the old ruins of the Roman Forum 

 down under our feet. Upon all she had her own opinion, 

 and was not backward to express herself. At other times 

 she used to ride with us to a beautiful country villa out- 



