I am able to take animal food again, and shall soon recover my ordinary strength.

Certainly it has been a bad attack, and I never suffered anything like it in Italy before.

The illness at Genoa was the mere _tail_ of what began in England, and was increased by the Alpine exposure.

Our weather has been very severe--wind and frost together--something peculiarly irritating in the air.

I am loth to blame my poor Florence, who never treated me so before (and how many winters we have spent here!)--and our friends write from Pisa that the weather was as trying there, while from Rome the account is simply 'detestable weather.' At Naples it is sometimes furiously cold; there's no perfect climate anywhere, that's certain.