Luccia

Without this, has the idea of the Coleman-De Luccia instanton been refuted?

Thought experiments Sean 2005

Luccia, for all her eighty years, seemed like a young wild-rose bush filling the tomb-like room with living light and fragrance.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

A certain reputation for "wildness," a savour of innocent Bohemianism, has clung to Luccia, and Irene too, all through their lives, as a legacy from that far-off legendary time when, scarcely out of their girlhood, they were fellow art-students together in Paris.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

Luccia married Irene's brother -- for they allow me the privilege of calling them by their Christian names -- and they have been friends all their lives.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

Luccia and Irene about them, seeking for further information as to why they ever came to retrograde from a position so heroically taken, one of such serious import to human progress, and to condescend once more to don the livery of feminine servitude, and appear, as they do today, in delicate draperies which the eye searches in vain for any hint of sanguinary revolution.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

It was a household of an excessively brown-stone respectability, just the atmosphere to rouse the wickedness in Luccia.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

Is it to be wondered at that often on summer days when I feel the need of a companion, I go in search of Luccia, and take tea with her on the veranda?

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

When the guest had departed, with a puzzled, questioning look still lingering on her face, Luccia turned to me, her eyes bright pools of merriment:

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

"Cousin Luccia!" cried out the three outraged mummies; the brother with actual sternness, and the sisters in plain fear.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

"Of course, why not?" asks Luccia with perfect seriousness.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906