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i2 4 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. v.
necessity of travelling more rapidly than their drivers
and hotel-keepers approved, and in part to the suspicion
which seems somehow to have attached to their party,
especially in the Neapolitan and Papal dominions. This
entry is thrice repeated :-
"Mem. Let no man in his senses ever again introduce a
carriage into the kingdom of Naples by sea."
At Naples he writes :-
u I confess the more I see of Sundays on the Continent, the
more does one s opinion of the Puritans rise. Sunday cannot
be a day of rest to the hard-pressed poor unless it be made
a day of religious rest."
"
I cannot endure Museums, but the paintings of Herculaneum
and Pompeii, the rusty irons to which the skeletons of prisoners
were found chained, the statues of the Balbi and of Agrippina,
the Farnese Hercules these save this from giving me the sicken
ing feeling which a museum generally brings."
In Rome they worked day and night at sight-seeing.
"
It is very well to pass a few months abroad, but the hurry
and want of peace makes it by no means the best relaxation
for a man who fears that during the rest of the year he has more
work than is consistent with quiet thoughtfulness."
"
Pope not to be seen.
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Aujourd hui il ne sort pas. Demain
il y a une procession, et il ne sort pas. Samedi il ne sort jamais.
Ni dimanche. I hope he may live through
the week."
"
PERUGIA, July 29^. --The landlord warned us that next daywas
to be the exhibition of the ring of the Virgin at the church
close by, and that we must expect about 3 A.M. to hear thousands
of poor people from the Abbruzzi and from Calabria, and from
most distant parts of Neapolitan dominions pass under our
windows singing Vivat Maria and Ave Maria. We were roused
accordingly ; and to-day, about eleven, we saw a scene the most
wonderful that I ever beheld. The people of the country here, it
appears, do not think very much of the relic, but its fame is great
at a distance. This year there were not above 2000 pilgrims from
a distance, which is a small number. They were the most abject