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Questa montagna è tale, / Che sempre al cominciar di sotto è grave. / E quanto uom più va su e men fa male. / Dante: Il Purgatorio
It was not many days after her mother's arrival that Gwendolen would consent to remain at Genoa. Her desire to get away from that gem of the sea, helped to rally her strength and courage. For what place, though it were the flowery vale of Enna, may not the inward sense turn into a circle of punishment where the flowers are no better than a crop of flame-tongues burning the soles of our feet?