Soon another letter, dated Rouen, announced his arrival there from England, and that he should reach Lucca in about two months.

When Victor Emmanuel II went to Tuscany, the path from Lucca to Pistoia was strewed with roses.

Indeed, she has come to Lucca on purpose to see that her orders are obeyed to the very letter, else that rascal of a secretary might have hung out something in spite of her.

Because you were once convicted at Lucca of using a knifeeh?

Here an anteroom, with Etruscan urns and fragments of mediaeval sculpture let into the walls, gives access to a great sala, or hall, where Paolo Guinigi entertained the citizens and magnates of Lucca with sumptuous hospitality.

His popularity and his liberality (and she cannot come to Lucca without hearing of both), even that comely young face of his, which she sees when she passes the club on the way to her afternoon drive on the ramparts, are dire offenses in her eyes.

In those daystemporibus illis, as the historians of long-forgotten centuries saythere used to be a very general exodus of the English colony at Florence to the baths of Lucca during the summer months.

"Shall I send to Lucca for a doctor?"

Methought this man led a great lordly chase Against a wolf and cubs, across the height Which barreth Lucca from the Pisan's sight.

"While we were standing in the street, waiting to know if the noble lady received, an old beggar, known in Lucca as the Hermit of Pizzorna, come down from the mountains for the festival, passed by.