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' 'Dear ma'amselle! I will shew you the very cannon; you can see it from

these s!' 'Well,' said Euards

it' 'What! not if I shew you the very cannon! Dearprobably upon this subject, but what I see,' said

Emily--'Well, ma'am, but you shall see it, if you will only step this

way to the case, and Annette

looked surprised Perceiving her extreme aptitude to credit the

marvellous, Emily forbore to mention the subject she had intended, lest

it should overcoan to speak on a

lively topic--the regattas of Venice

'Aye,hts, are all, that are worth seeing in Venice To be sure

the hter than any I ever saw; and then to hear such sweet

under the lattice by

the west portico! Ma'amselle, it was Ludovico, that told me about that

picture, which you wanted so to look at last night, and---' '

What picture?' said E Annette to explain herself 'O! that terrible picture with the black veil over it' 'You never saw it, then?' said E,' continued