There are bolts and shutters,
however, for every window in the house, and I suppose it would not be
amiss to put them all in use. Our garrison is so small that we must
depend more upon the strength of our fortifications than upon our own
active efforts in case of an attack. In England, in an insulated country
house, we should need all these bolts and bars, and Italy is not thought
to be the safer country of the two.
It deserves to be recorded that the Count Montanto, a nobleman, and
seemingly a man of property, should deem it worth while to let his
country seat, and reside during the hot months in his palace in the city,
for the consideration of a comparatively small sum a month. He seems to
contemplate returning hither for the autumn and winter, when the
situation must be very windy and bleak, and the cold death-like in these
great halls; and then, it is to be supposed, he will let his palace in
town. The Count, through the agency of his son, bargained very stiffly
for, and finally obtained, three dollars in addition to the sum which we
at first offered him.
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