I have never been: why should I go?
You have cold, you have hunger, you have fatigue, you have danger, and all for nothing but to see fire, which looks just as well in a brazier as a mountain.' Ha! ha! the old fellow was right." "But, Excellency," said the guide, "that is not all: some cavaliers think to ascend the mountain without our help.

I am sure they deserve to tumble into the crater." "They must be bold fellows to go alone: you don't often find such ?" "Sometimes among the French, signor.

But the other night--I never was so frightened.

I had been with an English party, and a lady had left a pocket-book on the mountain where she had been sketching.

She offered me a handsome sum to return for it, and bring it to her at Naples; so I went in the evening.