Chapter 43 No.43

Il Buon Di si Conosce da Mattina.

While Ibarra and Elias were on the lake, old Tasio, ill in his solitary little house, and Don Filipo, who had come to see him, were also talking of the country. For several days the old philosopher, or fool-as you find him-prostrated by a rapidly increasing feebleness, had not left his bed.

"The country," he