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Excerpt from The Earthquake, Vol. 3 of 3: A Tale
Of curiosity than of sorrow - at least it had this effect on the English travellers, who happened to be at that time in Naples, among whom were Lord and Lady Wild waste. Her Ladyship had been long in delicate health she inherited the infirmities Of her motherls constitution, and the climate Of Italy was prescribed as a palliative. Mr. Mowbray, their friend, was also there, and it was proposed, as' his Lordship had a yacht for sea-excursions, that they should visit those parts Of the coast of Sicily and Calabria where the havoc was described to have been greatest. They embarked im mediately, and on the third day after, reached the harbour of Messina. The sight of the ruins, the tottering walls, the broken arches, and the multitude of af?icted in dividuals still lamenting their losses, affected Lady Wildwaste so deeply, that she felt herself incapable at first of going on shore; and her husband, by whom she was very tenderly beloved, was induced to remain with her, while Mowbray went alone.
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