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A Wanderer in Florence

CHAPTER XVII
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One may wander through its rooms and see in the refectory, beneath portraits of famous brothers, the tables now laid for young foresters.

The museum of forestry is interesting to those interested in museums of forestry.
It was to the monastery at Vallombrosa that the Brownings travelled in 1848 when Mrs.Browning was ill.

But the abbot could not break the rules in regard to women, and after five days they had to return to Florence.

Browning used to play the organ in the chapel, as, it is said, Milton had done two centuries earlier.
At such a height and with only a short season the hotel proprietors must do what they can, and prices do not rule low.

A departing American was eyeing his bill with a rueful glance as we were leaving.


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