The views were as fine as he had supposed; the lights on the Sabine Mountains had never been more lovely.

He gazed to his satisfaction and retraced his steps.

In a moment he paused again on an abutment somewhat lower, from which the glance dropped dizzily into the interior.

There are chance anfractuosities of ruin in the upper portions of the Coliseum which offer a very fair imitation of the rugged face of an Alpine cliff.

In those days a multitude of delicate flowers and sprays of wild herbage had found a friendly soil in the hoary crevices, and they bloomed and nodded amid the antique masonry as freely as they would have done in the virgin rock.