And this next?
Ah, I remember--_'Tu cum parentis regna per arduum'_; but what a devil of a design! And, above all, what mellowness! You will, I know, pardon the enthusiasm of one who comes from the Provence, a few miles out of Arles, and whose mother's family boasts itself to be descended from Roman colonists." Narcissus beamed.
"To you then, M.Raoul, after your Forum and famous Amphitheatre, our pavement must seem a poor trifle--though it by no means exhausts our list of interesting remains.

The praefurnium, for instance; I must show you our praefurnium." "The house would be remarkable anywhere--even in my own Provence--so closely has it kept the original lines.

In half-an-hour one could reconstruct--" "Ay!" chimed in the delighted Narcissus.

"You shall try, M.Raoul, you shall try! I promise to catch you tripping." "Yonder runs the Fosse Way, west by south.

The villa stands about two hundred yards back from it, facing the south-east--" "A little east of south.