Sinopsis

THE Kalends (first) of March.
A brilliant day in the town of Nemausus—the modem Nîmes—in the Province of Gallia Narbonensis, that arrogated to itself the title of being the province, a title that has continued in use to the present day, as distinguishing the olive-growing, rose-producing, ruin-strewn portion of Southern , whose fringe is kissed by the blue Mediterranean.
Not a cloud in the bugloss-blue sky. The sun streamed down, with a heat that was unabsorbed, and with rays unshorn by any intervenient vapour, as in our northern clime.