Bantling. I was bound to see it
thoroughly- I warned him when we went out there that I was thorough:
so we spent three days at the hotel and wandered all over the place.
It was lovely weather- a kind of Indian summer, only not so good. We
just lived in that park. Oh yes; you can't tell me anything about
Versailles." Henrietta appeared to have made arrangements to meet
her gallant friend during the spring in Italy.
CHAPTER 21
Mrs. Touchett, before arriving in Paris, had fixed the day for her
departure and by the middle of February had begun to travel southward.
She interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San
Remo, on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a
dull, bright winter beneath a slow-moving white umbrella. Isabel
went with her aunt as a matter of course, though Mrs. Touchett, with
homely, customary logic, had laid before her a pair of alternatives.
"Now, of course, you're completely your own mistress and are as free
as the bird on the bough. I don't mean you were not so before, but
you're at present on a different footing- property erects a kind of
barrier. You can do a great many things if you're rich which would
be severely criticized if you were poor.
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