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In the evening Cavigni joined the ladies, but Montoni had other

engageondola for St Mark's, where the

saht The cool

breeze, the glassy sea, the gentle sound of its waves, and the sweeter

murmur of distant roups that sauntered beneath them; these, with every feature and

circuer teased by

the officious attentions of Count Morano But, as she looked upon the

the walls of St Mark, and, lingering

for aof

so for his master, her

softened mind returned to the memory of her home, of her friends, and of

all that was dear in her native country

After walking some tini was acco theht E all the attention he had shewn her on the preceding evening,

was compelled, as before, to shrink from his assiduities into a tinora Herht before they withdrew to the opera, where Emily

was not so charmed but that, when she remembered the scene she had just

quitted, she felt how infinitely inferior all the splendour of art is