The change was so pleasant that I bore with perfect equanimity the lamentations of certain English acquaintances of ours in Florence, who declared it was the most frightful and dangerous climate that could be, that now one was frozen to death and the next day burnt and melted, and that people couldn't be healthy under such transitions.

But all countries of the south are subject to the same of course wherever there is a southern sun, and mountains to retain snow.

Even in Paris you complain of something a little like it, because of the sun.

We left Florence in a blaze of sunshine accordingly, and there and everywhere found the country transfigured back into summer, except for two days of April rain.

Of the kindness of our dear friends Mr.and Mrs.Eckley I am moved when I try to speak.