A Room with a View

Any one can find places, but the finding of people is a gift from God.

don't mean by that that he has bad manners--and he will not keep his opinions to himself

I was hoping that he was nice; I do so always hope that people will be nice."

But an Italian can never be ig­nored, least of all when he has a griev­ance.

the ghoul­ish fash­ion in which re­spect­able people will nibble after blood.

The fault is mine: I left her un­chap­eroned.”

could not have be­lieved that stones, a Log­gia, a foun­tain, a palace tower, would have such sig­ni­fic­ance. For a mo­ment she un­der­stood the nature of ghosts.

The Piazza Si­gnoria is too stony to be bril­liant.

“Beau­ti­ful?” said Miss Bart­lett, puzzled at the word. “Are not beauty and del­ic­acy the same?”

“So one would have thought,” said the other help­lessly. “But things are so dif­fi­cult, I some­times think.”

but it does seem hard that you shouldn’t have a view.”