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"_Lake Como_. We stayed in Venice five days, and during that time
saw all the sights that it could enter the head of a _valet-de-
place_ to afflict us with. It is an affliction, however, for which
there is no remedy, because you want to see the things, and would be
very sorry if you went home without having done so. From Venice we
went to Milan to see the cathedral and Leonardo da Vinci's 'Last
Supper.' The former is superb, and of the latter I am convinced, from
the little that remains of it, that it _was_ the greatest picture
the world ever saw. We shall run back to Rome for Holy Week, and then
to Paris.
"_Rome_. From Lake Como we came back here for Holy Week, and now
it is over.
"'What do you think of it?'
"Certainly no thoughtful or sensitive person, no person impressible
either through the senses or the religious feelings, can fail to feel
it deeply.
"In the first place, the mere fact of the different nations of the
earth moving, so many of them, with one accord, to so old and
venerable a city, to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus, is
something in itself affecting. Whatever dispute there may be about the
other commemorative feasts of Christendom, the time of this epoch is
fixed unerringly by the Jews' Passover. That great and solemn feast,
therefore, stands as an historical monument to mark the date of the
most important and thrilling events which this world ever witnessed.
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