our host
was,because
of our
common
Italian
background.He
was of the
old
Silver-gray
Whig
society
too,and I
suppose
that order
of things
imparted
its tone
to what I
felt and
saw in
that
place.The
civil war
had come
and
gone,and
that order
accepted
the result
if not
with
faith,then
with
patience.There
were two
young
English
noblemen
there that
night,who
had been
travelling
in the
South,and
whose
stories of
the
wretched
conditions
they had
