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calls her eyes Indian. The statue is true to the present fact and
history of California, and includes the age-long truth as respects the
"auri sacra fames." . . . .
When we had looked sufficiently at the sculpture, Powers proposed that we
should now go across the street and see the Casa del Bello. We did so in
a body, Powers in his dressing-gown and slippers, and his wife and
daughters without assuming any street costume.
The Casa del Bello is a palace of three pianos, the topmost of which is
occupied by the Countess of St. George, an English lady, and two lower
pianos are to be let, and we looked at both. The upper one would have
suited me well enough; but the lower has a terrace, with a rustic
summer-house over it, and is connected with a garden, where there are
arbors and a willow-tree, and a little wilderness of shrubbery and roses,
with a fountain in the midst. It has likewise an immense suite of rooms,
round the four sides of a small court, spacious, lofty, with frescoed
ceilings and rich hangings, and abundantly furnished with arm-chairs,
sofas, marble tables, and great looking-glasses.
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