Many hours daily were given to fine needlework- calm quiet hours full of thought as well as work; she had her music to practice, new books and papers to read, calls to make, mantua makers and milliners to interview, dinners and dances and tea-parties to attend, shopping to look after, delicate bits of darning and mending to exercise her skill on, creams and pasties and cakes to prepare, visitors to welcome and entertain, and many other duties which sprang up-as extras do-unexpectedly, and yet which opened the door for very pleasant surprises and events.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
Sordello's wanderings carry him one day to the walls of mantua, outside which Palma is holding a "Court of Love."
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
He is coming to mantua.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr