CHAPTER IV.

A Winter in Florence and Rome--Cheap Living and Good Cooking--Walnut-fed Turkeys--The Grand Duke of Tuscany’s Ball--An American Girl who Elbowed the King--What a Ball Supper should be--Ball to the Archduke of Tuscany--“The Duke of Pennsylvania”--Following the Hounds on the Campagna--The American Minister Snubs American Gentlemen, 41