Then I can work
here, too, and try lots of experiments; you know how I like that!
and now and then I read - Shakespeare principally. Thank you so
much for making me bring him: I think I must get a pocket edition
of Hamlet and Henry the Fifth, so as never to be without them.
'Cagliari: October 7.
'[The town was full?] . . . of red-shirted English Garibaldini. A
very fine looking set of fellows they are, too: the officers
rather raffish, but with medals Crimean and Indian; the men a very
sturdy set, with many lads of good birth I should say. They still
wait their consort the Emperor and will, I fear, be too late to do
anything. I meant to have called on them, but they are all gone
into barracks some way from the town, and I have been much too busy
to go far.
'The view from the ramparts was very strange and beautiful.
Cagliari rises on a very steep rock, at the mouth of a wide plain
circled by large hills and three-quarters filled with lagoons; it
looks, therefore, like an old island citadel.
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