But poppa said I had better mention it so that people might be prepared.

Personally, I rather liked the display, it gave such unexpected colour and incident to those high-shouldering, narrow by-ways we looked down into from the upper level of the Via Balbi, where only here and there the sun strove through, and all the rest was a rich toned mystery; but there may be others like momma, who prefer the clothes line of the Occident and the privacy of the back yard.
The two sides of the _Via Poverina_ almost touched foreheads.

"Yes," said Alessandro Bebbini apologetically, "it is a _ver'_ tight street." Poppa was extremely pleased with the appearance of the house of Christopher Columbus, which Alessandro pointed out in the Via Assorotti.
It was a comfortable looking edifice, with stone giants supporting the arch of the doorway, in every respect suitable as the residence of a retired navigator of distinction.

Poppa said it was very gratifying to find that Cristoforo had been able, in his declining years, when he was our only European representative, to keep his end up with credit to America.
You so often found the former abodes of glorious names with a modern rental out of all proportion with their historic interest.

This house, poppa calculated, would let to-day at a figure discreditable neither to Cristoforo himself, nor to the United States of America.