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Was ist's / Das hinter diesem Schleier sich verbirgt? / "Das Verschleierte Bild zu Sais. " / (What is it that conceals itself behind this veil? )
On returning from Vesuvius or Pompeii, you enter Naples through its most animated, its most Neapolitan quarter, -- through that quarter in which modern life most closely resembles the ancient; and in which, when, on a fair-day, the thoroughfare swarms alike with Indolence and Trade, you are impressed at once with the recollection of that restless, lively race from which the population of Naples derives its origin; so that in one day you may see at Pompeii the habitations of a remote age; and on the Mole, at Naples, you may imagine you behold the very beings with whom those habitations had been peopled.