"Nervi" Quotes from Famous Books
... the prettiest houses in London, and every conceivable (and inconceivable) luxury in it, Townshend is voluntarily undergoing his own sentence of transportation in Nervi, a beastly little place near Genoa, where you would as soon find a herd of wild elephants in any villa as comfort. He has a notion that he must be out of England in the winter, but I believe him to be altogether wrong (as I have just told him in ... — The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870 • Charles Dickens |