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Halfway down this, Casanova put his head out of the little cabin to address the gondolier in the poop. "Do you think we shall reach Mestre in an hour?" "Mestre?" quoth the gondolier. "But you said Fusine." "No, no, I said Mestre at least, I intended to say Mestre."
Between the Posina and the Astico they took Austrian positions on Monte Gamonda, north of Fusine, and Monte Caviojo. On the Asiago Plateau other Italian forces occupied the southern side of the Assa Valley and reached the slopes of Monte Rasta, Monte Interrotto and Monte Mosciagh, which were held strongly by the Austrian rear guards.
Without uttering a word, he stepped quickly across the threshold, and with Balbi close upon his heels, he went down the Giant's Staircase in a flash, crossed the little square, reached the canal, bundled Balbi into the first gondola he found there, and jumped in after him. "I want to go to Fusine, and quickly," he announced. "Call another oarsman."
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