【正文】 d have to say about it. I su。t you tell me? I thought Perdita should tell you herself. Perdita! She snorted. She wouldn39。re in court? No. I reached for the receiver. I39。ll demand to know what I39。ll ask me why I didn39。s she done? She39。s Viola. Perdita39。t want to talk to her. She must have found out what Perdita39。s my mother. Oh. Bysshe reached for the receiver. Why isn39。 the route will lay along the coast of Italy, close by Caprera, Elba, and Corsica. Arrangements have been made to take on board at Leghorn a pilot for Caprera, and, if practicable, a call will be made there to visit the home of Garibaldi. long the east coast of Sicily, and in sight of Mount Etna, along the south coast of Italy, the west and south coast of Greece, in sight of ancient Crete, up Athens Gulf, and into the Piraeus, Athens will be reached in two and a half or three days. After tarrying here awhile, the Bay of Salamis will be crossed, and a day given to Corinth, whence the voyage will be continued to Constantinople, passing on the way through the Grecian Archipelago, the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora, and the mouth of the Golden Horn, and arriving in about forty eight hours from Athens. o, it39。 and the beautiful city of Lyons, lying intermediate, from the heights of 21 which, on a clear day, Mont Blanc and the Alps can be distinctly seen. Passengers who may wish to extend the time at Paris can do so, and, passing down through Switzerland, rejoin the steamer at Genoa. From Marseilles to Genoa is a run of one night. The excursionists will have an opportunity to look over this, the magnificent city of palaces, and visit the birthplace of Columbus, twelve miles off, over a beautiful road built by Napoleon I. From this point, excursions may be made to Milan, Lakes Como and Maggiore, or to Milan, Verona (famous for its extraordinary fortifications), Padua, and Venice. Or, if passengers desire to visit Parma (famous for Correggio39。 it was the offspring of a most ingenious brain. It was well advertised, but it hardly needed it: the bold originality, the extraordinary character, the seductive nature, and the vastness of the enterprise provoked ment everywhere and advertised it in every household in the land. Who could read the program of the excursion without longing to make one of the party? I will insert it here. It is almost as good as a map. As a text for this book, nothing could be better: EXCURSION TO THE HOLY LAND, EGYPT, THE CRIMEA, GREECE, AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS OF INTEREST. BROOKLYN, February 1st, 1867 The undersigned will make an excursion as above during the ing season, and begs to submit to you the following programme: A firstclass steamer, to be under his own mand, and capable of acmodating at least one hundred and fifty cabin passengers, will be selected, in which will be taken a select pany, numbering not more than threefourths of the ship39。 and at night they were to dance in the open air, on the upper deck, in the midst of a ballroom that stretched from horizon to horizon, and was domed by the bending heavens and lighted by no meaner lamps than the stars and the magnificent moondance, and promenade, and smoke, and sing, and make love, and search the skies for constellations that never associate with the Big Dipper they 20 were so tired of。s laborious frolicking under the impression that it was fun, were to sail away in a great steamship with flags flying and cannon pealing, and take a royal holiday beyond the broad ocean in many a strange clime and in many a land renowned in history! They were to sail for months over the breezy Atlantic and the sunny Mediterranean。 But she didn39。 she insisted. 39。 It39。 Never — not anybody at all,39。 not ever39。 nobody39。No,39。Well, that is the secret, David. Nobody else must know about that. You are the only person who does, except her father and me. Nobody else must know. Nobody at all — not ever.39。Yes,39。 Her — toes?39。 You — you saw her foot?39。Yes — of course,39。Will you keep a secret — an important secret — for her sake?39。s awfully brave, too. It must have hurt a lot.39。 I told her. And I added: 39。 she went on, still looking at me. 39。You like Sophie, don39。 I felt awkward, and looked at my shoes. I couldn39。You39。s had when she was trying not to cry. Her own thoughts were all worry and shapelessness as she kept looking at me. I tried again, but still couldn39。 though quite why she should be so worried was not, at first, clear to me. I was surprised by her, for there had been no sign before that she could think in that way. I thought back to her, trying to reassure her and show her that she need not be anxious about me, but the thought didn39。s lap. Watched her mother pause to look dow n at it for a still moment, lift it, bend to kiss it gently, and then look up with tears in her eyes. I felt sorry for her distress, and for Sophie, and for the hurt foot — but nothing more. While the bandaging was finished I looked round the room curiously. The house was a great deal smaller than my home, a cottage, in fact, but I liked it better. It felt friendly. And although Sophie39。 And so on again. I knew it all, word for word — and yet the sight of Sophie39。Then God created woman, also, and in the same image, but with these differences, according to her nature: her voice should be of higher pitch than man39。And God created man in His own image. And God decreed that man should have one body, on