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Then was the time our men proved their worth. They absolutely shattered the Germans with their shells." Some gallant stories are told of the Royal Engineers. One especially thrilling, is given in the words of Darino, a lyrical artist of the Comédie Française, who joined the Cuirassiers, and was a spectator of the scene he describes.
They were just passing the Palazzo Darino, where a gondola lurked in the shadow. "We shall hardly see them in the crowd," Uncle Dan remarked. "What's your idea, Nanni? Think you can keep us out of the jam?" "Si, Signore; I know a place where they won't crowd us." "What a funny name that is for a man," May exclaimed. "It's short for Giovanni.
Just as the noon gun roared out from the base of San Giorgio, the Colonel rang the bell of the Palazzo Darino. She was sitting, the lady of his evening reverie, the lady of a life-long reverie, one might as truly say, just as he had hoped to find her, alone and disengaged.
He had been counting upon smoking it out before arriving at the Palazzo Darino, though he had scented danger from the moment his eye fell upon Vittorio's gondola. A gondolier, however, is early schooled to study any whim rather than his own, and presently Pietro observed, rather than inquired: "To San Giorgio, Signore?" "Sicuro!"
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