His enjoyment of Venice was extreme, but he was roused from it by a summons he was indisposed to resist.

This consisted of a letter from an intimate friend who was living in Germany--a friend whose name was Gordon Wright.
He had been spending the winter in Dresden, but his letter bore the date of Baden-Baden.

As it was not long, I may give it entire.
"I wish very much that you would come to this place.

I think you have been here before, so that you know how pretty it is, and how amusing.

I shall probably be here the rest of the summer.