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She looked round, with anxious enquiry; the deep twilight, that had

fallen over the scene, ades to the eye, but,

at soondola: a

chorus of voices and instruments noelled on the air--so sweet, so

soleh the silence

of night! Now it died away, and fancy al towards heaven; then again it swelled with the breeze,

treht to Emily's

recollection some lines of her late father, and she repeated in a low

voice,

Oft I hear,

Upon the silence of the ht air,

Celestial voices swell in holy chorus

That bears the soul to heaven!

The deep stillness, that succeeded, was as expressive as the strain

that had just ceased It was uninterrupted for several h seemed to release the coed the pleasing sadness, that had stolen

upon her spirits; but the gay and busy scene that appeared, as the barge

approached St Mark's Place, at length roused her attention The rising

ht upon the terraces, and illunificent arcades that crowned theuitars, and softer voices,

echoed through the colonnades

The e, in one of the

gondolas, of which several were seen skiay parties, catching the cool breeze Most of these had music,