You can get at pictures in England and at artistic society also if you please; and making a _slancio_ into Germany or to Paris would not be impossible to you occasionally.
Does this advice sound _too_ disinterested on my part?
Never think so.
We only stand ourselves on one foot in Florence--forced to go away in the summer; forced to go away in the winter.

Robert was so persuaded even last winter (before my illness) of my being better at Rome that he would have taken an apartment there and furnished it, except that I prevented him.

Then we have calls from the north, and on most summers we must be in England and Paris.

To stay on through the summer in Florence is impossible to us at least.

Think of thermometers being a hundred and two in the shade this year! So I consider your case dispassionately, and conclude _we_ are not worth your consideration in reference to prospects connected with any place.