North Italian Folk - Sketches of Town and Country Life #246040

To them rather than to others in the land belong the freedom and freshness, the grace and good heartedness, the frank honesty that finds a place even beside worldly-wise prudence, the simple and courteous dignity which the educated classes have not always been able to maintain. No one who has lived long beside them could have failed to learn the grace of their ways, the humour of their rustic simplicity; no one who has grown up in their midst could ever forget their pleasant faces and quaint enthusiasms, their friendly greet ings, their frank speech and emphatic Opinions.