15/21 I wish we could dress like Italians. How I should like to wear a scarlet bodice, and a veil fastened with a silver arrow." "If we remained till Carnival, you might have that pleasure," replied Mrs.Delano; "for everybody masquerades as they like at that time. But I imagine you would hardly fancy my appearance in scarlet jacket, with laced sleeves, big coral necklace, and long ear-rings, like that old Contadina we met riding on a donkey." Flora laughed. "To think of Mamita Lila in such costume!" exclaimed she. "The old Contadina would make a charming picture; but a picture of the Campagna, sleepy with purple haze, would be more like you." "Am I then so sleepy ?" inquired her friend. |