Her keen judgment and that faculty she possessed of always seeing everything from the simplest standpoint of truth made her an ideal companion to wander with on this journey of cultured ease.
"How strong a place this seems, Cheiron," she said, after two days of their sight-seeing.

"All the spirits at the zenith of Genoa's greatness were strong--nothing weak or ascetic.

They must have been filled with gratitude to God for giving them this beautiful life, those old patrons of decoration.

There is nothing cheap or hurried; it is all an appreciation of the magnificence due to their noble station and their pride of race.

For the _Guelphist_ of them seems to have been an aristocrat and an autocrat in his personal _menage_.