sometimes thought that their fire partook more of the glare of

malice than the brightness of valour, though the latter would

well have harmonized with the high chivalric air of his figure,

in which Cavigni, with all his gay and gallant manners, was his

inferior.¶

French hats for the Italian cap of scarlet cloth, embroidered; and

Emily was somewhat surprised to observe, that Montoni added

to his the military plume, while Cavigni retained only the feather:

which was usually worn with such caps: but she at length con-

cluded, that Montoni assumed this ensign of a soldier for conveni-

ence, as a means of passing with more safety through a country

over-run with parties of the military.¶

were frequently visible. Where the lands had not been suffered to

lie uncultivated, they were often tracked with the steps of the

spoiler; the vines were torn down from the branches that had

supported them, the olives trampled upon the ground, and even

the groves of mulberry trees had been hewn by the enemy to light

fires that destroyed the hamlets and villages of their owners.

Emily turned her eyes with a sigh from these painful vestiges of

contention, to the Alps of the Grison, that overlooked them to the

north, whose awful solitudes seemed to offer to persecuted man a

secure asylum.¶

at a distance; and they experienced, at the little inns on the road,

the scarcity of provision and other inconveniences, which are a part

of the consequence of intestine war; but they had never reason to

be much alarmed for their immediate safety, and they passed on to

Milan with little interruption of any kind, where they staid not

to survey the grandeur of the city, or even to view its vast cathedral,

which was then building.¶

tion; and though every thing seemed now quiet, the repose was

like that of death, spread over features, which retain the impression

of the last convulsions.¶

that the travellers saw any troops since they had left Milan, when,

as the evening was drawing to a close, they descried what appeared

to be an army winding onward along the distant plains, whose

spears and other arms caught the last rays of the sun. As the column

advanced through a part of the road, contracted between two