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One day, from far behind, came the plash of an oar in the channel. As the narrow hull swept past, he saw a hand gather in the felza curtains, and a woman kneel to his side. "So Bastian takes you always to the dead sea," she tossed aboard. "Bastian might convoy other forestieri," Lawrence defended.
"You can see the Italian Alps," Miss Barton remarked, pulling aside the felza curtains and pointing lazily to the snow masses on the blue north horizon. "That purplish other sea is the Trevisan plain, and back of it is Castelfranco Giorgione's Castelfranco and higher up where the blue begins to break into the first steps of the Alps is perched Asolo Browning's Asolo. Oh!
"They came over them, then, the curious ones," the younger man of the two who lounged on cushions underneath the felza remarked, as if to prolong the theme. "To the gates of Paradise," he continued, while his companion motioned to the gondolier. "And they broke them open, but they could never take the swag after all." He laughed at her puzzled look.
He had somehow found the means to follow her, arriving that morning by the third-class train, and had hung around the piazza, confident that the girl must appear in this center of civic activity. They at once took to a gondola as the safest method of privacy. And it was in this gondola, behind the little black curtains of the felza, that Adelle received her second kiss from the lips of a man.
The words ended with a moan. Clayton sat doggedly looking at his picture. But his heart refused to be sad. August, 1893. The narrow slant of water that could be seen between the posts of the felza was rippling with little steely waves. The line of the heavy beak cut the opening between the tapering point of the Lido and the misty outline of Tre Porti.
"Because I am " "Sh," she laid her fingers lightly on his forehead. "There is no thine and mine." Bastian dipped his sweep once more. San Giorgio's austere facade went out into the black night. One cold ripple of Adriatic wind stirred the felza curtains. The garden on the Giudecca was a long narrow strip on the seaward side, blossoming profusely with flowers.
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