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liked. The eldest girl, Maria, was so emaciated
by repeated attacks of fever that I told her father
that she would not survive the summer if she was
left in Rome. I offered him to let her spend the
summer in San Michele with my household. He
hesitated at first, the poor class Italians are most
reluctant to be separated from their sick children,
they prefer to let them die at home rather than
to have them taken to a hospital. He ended by
accepting when he was told to take his daughter to
Capri himself to see with his own eyes how well
she would be looked after by my people. Miss
Hall with Giovannina and Rosina and all the dogs
went by rail to Naples as usual. I with Billy the
baboon, the mongoose and the little owl had a
glorious sail in the yacht. We rounded Monte
Circeo as the sun was rising, caught the morning
breeze from the Bay of Gaeta, darted at racing
speed under the Castle of Ischia and dropped
anchor at the Marina of Capri as the bells were
ringing mezzogiorno. Two hours later I was at
work in the garden of San Michele with hardly
any clothes on.
After five long summers’ incessant toil from
sunrise till sunset San Michele was more or less
finished but there was still a lot to be done in the
garden. A new terrace was to be laid out behind
the house, another loggia to be built over the
two small Roman rooms which we had discovered
in the autumn. As to the little cloister court I
told Mastro Nicola we had better knock it down,
I did not like it any more. Mastro Nicola
implored me to leave it as it was, we had already
knocked it down twice, if we kept on knocking
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