To put him at his ease, I told him how lovely I thought the fountains.

"That's one of your most ideal connections with ancient history, don't you think ?" I said.

"The fact that those old aqueducts of yours have been bringing down the water to sparkle and ripple in Roman streets ever since." "Idealissimo! And the Trevi of Bernini--I hope you threw the soldi, so that you must come back to Rome!" "We weren't quite sure which it was," I responded, "so poppa threw soldi into all of them, to make certain.

Sometimes he had to make two or three shots," and I could not help smiling at the recollection.
"Ah, the profusion!" "I don't suppose they came to a quarter of a dollar, Count.

It is the cheapest of your amusements." The Count reflected for a moment.
"Then you wish to return to Rome," he said softly; "you take interest here ?" "Why yes," I said, "I'm not a barbarian.