He was so thoughtful and charming; he took us to see the church, and the graves of Absalon and Holberg; he inspected the old monkish inscriptions with us, and sailed with us across the lake to Parnasset.
Snow drifts were lying in all the scrolls and on the inscriptions, and the steps were covered with snow as if no one were at home.
All but the top of the tablet has been eroded by calcium carbonate, and the inscriptions have become unreadable.
On the walls were inscriptions, half of them against "la bella Italia.