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nora Livona, and her

nified, was

too gentle to repress his assiduities: he could see, hear, speak to no

person, but Eni observed him now and then, with a look

of displeasure, and E so ht before

the gondolas approached St Mark's Place, where the voice of gaiety

and song was loud The busy hu sounds was heard at a

considerable distance on the water, and, had not a bright ht

discovered the city, with its terraces and towers, a stranger would

almost have credited the fabled wonders of Neptune's court, and

believed, that the tumult arose froaiety of the colonnades and the

beauty of the night, ly submit to the Count's

solicitations to join the promenade, and afterwards to take a supper

with the rest of the party, at his Casino If any thing could have

dissipated Eaiety,

and novelty of the surrounding scene, adorned with Palladio's palaces,

and busy with parties of masqueraders