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Blanche is going home. Oh, William, William! I'm going to shut this, and it's like the good-bye of death a mean and ugly death. "... Later. They have just brought me a note from Danieli's. So Margaret did write to you, and your mother has come. Why did you send her, William? She doesn't love me and I shall only stab and hurt her. Though I'll try not for your sake."
Outside I found a great crowd to see the embarcation of the corpse for its last home, the Campo Santo. This, I may say, was rather a late funeral. Most of them are at eight or even earlier. It is best now to return to the Riva by the calle which comes out beside Danieli's and then walk Lido-wards over two bridges and take the first calle after them.
Is it far from here? She started when he moved, and obliged her to move with him, as if he had suddenly awakened her out of a deep sleep. 'Not far, she said faintly. 'The old hotel on the quay. My mind's in a strange state; I have forgotten the name. 'Danieli's? 'Yes! He led her on slowly. She accompanied him in silence as far as the end of the Piazzetta.
There are the two ancient chimneys seen from the lagoon on a house behind Danieli's. There is the lovely Gothic palace with a doorway and garden seen from the Ponte dell'Erbe the Palazzo Van Axel. There is the red palace seen from the Fondamenta dell'Osmarin next the Ponte del Diavolo.
Franz, that's the butler, sir, told me yesterday evening that he had received a telegram saying that the lady and gentleman had arrived safely and were very comfortably fixed in the Hotel Danieli. You know Danieli's?" "Yes, I do. I also was one of the few people who did not know Venice, that is I was until two years ago.
But that is not too easy. What, however, is quite easy is to visit Chioggia from Venice and then, returning, catch some of the beauty without, however, all the surprise and wonder of that approach. Steamers leave the Riva, opposite Danieli's, every two hours.
But I can't work in public with a man whom I must cut in private. It wouldn't amuse me. So if you're decided, Kitty, write to Danieli's for rooms." He lit his cigarette, and went out with a perfect nonchalance and good-temper. Kitty was to have gone to a ball. She countermanded her maid's preparations, and sent the maid to bed.
At Venice they stayed in Danieli's Hotel, on the Riva dei Schiavoni, and began by studying picturesque canal-life. Mr. Boxall, R.A., and Mrs. Jameson, the historian of Sacred and Legendary Art, were their companions. Another old friend, Joseph Severn, had in 1843 gained one of the prizes at the Westminster Hall Cartoons Competition; and a letter from Ruskin, referring to the work there, shows how he still pondered on the subject that had been haunting him in the Alps: "With your hopes for the elevation of English art by means of fresco I cannot sympathize.... It is not the material nor the space that can give us thoughts, passions, or power. I see on our Academy walls nothing but what is ignoble in small pictures, and would be disgusting in large ones.... It is not the love of fresco that we want; it is the love of God and His creatures; it is humility, and charity, and self-denial, and fasting, and prayer; it is a total change of character. We want more faith and less reasoning, less strength and more trust. You want neither walls, nor plaster, nor colours ça ne fait rien
"I'm getting really fond of the Hickses; I believe I should be nice to them even if they were staying at Danieli's," Susy said to Strefford. "And even if you owned the yacht?" he answered; and for once his banter struck her as beside the point.
Murano is within every visitor's range, no matter how brief his stay, but Burano is another matter. The steamer which sails from the pier opposite Danieli's on all fine afternoons except Sundays and holidays requires four hours; but if the day be fine they are four hours not to be forgotten.
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