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 were soon invited to do the same. It was in this way that, with the
luck that attends Rendel wherever he goes, we came to see something of
domestic life in Italy, and that I found myself involved in another of
those adventures for which I naturally sought so little. I wonder if
there is any other place in Sicily so faultless as Sta. Catarina?
Taormina is a paradise, an epitome of all that is beautiful in
Italy,--Venice excepted. Girgenti is a solemn epic, with its golden
temples between the sea and hills. Cefalu is wild and strange, and
Monreale a vision out of a fairy tale; but Sta. Catarina!-- Fancy a
convent of creamy stone and rose-red brick perched on a ledge of rock
midway between earth and heaven, the cliff falling almost sheer to the
valley two hundred feet and more, the mountain rising behind straight
towards the sky; all the rocks covered with cactus and dwarf fig-trees,
the convent draped in smothering roses, and in front a terrace with a
fountain in the midst; and then--nothing--between you and the sapphire
sea, six miles away. Below stretches the Eden valley, the Concha d'Oro,
gold-green fig orchards alternating with smoke-blue olives, the
mountains rising on either hand and sinking undulously away towards the
bay where, like a magic city of ivory and nacre, Palermo lies guarded by
the twin mountains, Monte Pellegrino and Capo Z
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