For Italy they were not really at all serious. But these are the little disadvan- tages of every hired house, all over the world. And our land- lady was a liar and a cheat. Punctually every autumn the drinking well ran dry. There was a splendid bathroom but the electric pump, which was supposed to send up water from the rain- water tanks in the terrace, did not work. On windy nights, when the ill-fitting panes were rattling so furiously in the win- dow frames that you could fancy yourself in an hotel omnibus, the electric light, for some mysterious reason, used invariably to go out and leave you in the noisy dark. The rent was unduly high, the drainage system poor. ![]() ![]() It was a long way out of town and had no tele- phone. Young Archimedes BY ALDOUS HUXLEY IT WAS the view which finally made us take the place.
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