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morning the peasant and her family appeared in perfect health and what is more they were most anxious to prove their gratitude for what was to provide them with meals for days to come.

I had given this receipt for preserving meat to Antonia, so on returning home I made an anxious enquiry about it. He reassured me by explaining that after divesting the meat of all grease he had baked it dry and that now, under a coat of oil, it was in the safe keeping of the ice-chest. Besides this he had made some corn-beef with a special kind of salt which he happened to have. N. took me to task for offering to our disappointed friends some of our meat, should it prove a success. She reminded me that we cannot deprive our household, and what is more, the Sfollati will probably soon be suffering from hunger and then it will be up to us to feed them. My offer, by the way, was solely inspired by the desire to return a service which the young Italian artist had rendered me. Hearing that I had no paints, he went down to Florence and brought back tubes that were all but impossible to find. He refused to be refunded, saying 'it was a pleasure to provide an artist of my value with paints'.

July 20th Yesterday coming up from town we passed a young man standing up painting near our door. His face wore the blissful expression of one lost in art. His mouth was open as he conveyed to canvas his impressions of Via S. Leonardo.