Delightful for a few months, but very grim all the rest of the year.

Has he any society there ?" "None outside his home, I think.

He sits by the fire and reads Dante." "Dante ?" "Yes, Dante; he seems to care for hardly anything else.

It has been so for two or three years.

Editions of Dante and books about Dante crowd his room--they are constantly coming.