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The sleek merchants wore gorgeously embroidered costumes, and behind them were women of their own race, dressed plainly in the national garb, their stiff oiled hair stuck with long pins lobed with glass. They were evidently an orchestra, for they sang, or rather chanted, in high monotonous voices, as mournful as their gray expressionless faces.
Yet it was no beast that Dorothy had discovered, for the person was clothed most gorgeously in embroidered garments of many colors, and wore a straw hat perched jauntily upon the side of its head.
At three different visits to Venice, the present writer sought the spot where they were laid, and in vain. At the second of these visits, he found the Patriarch of Venice, under whose rule various outrages upon Sarpi's memory had been perpetrated, pontificating gorgeously about the Grand Piazza; but at his next visit there had come a change. The monks had disappeared.
Whilst I was busily employed noting all these details, the door of the room opened, and the threshold was gorgeously illuminated by a brilliant sunbeam, from which suddenly evolved the figure of a young and lovely girl.
Of late it has, of course, acquired a certain modernness of aspect; it has planted acacia trees in its little piazza, and it has a gorgeously arrayed municipal band.
If their great wooden screens were removed, which separate the choir from the nave, the cathedrals doubtless would appear to more advantage, and especially if they were filled with altars and shrines and pictures, and lighted candles on the altars, filled also with crowds of worshippers, reverent before the gorgeously attired ministers of Divine Omnipotence, and excited by transporting chants, and the various appeals to sense and imagination.
"Some people think he did," answered Britt, dryly. "So they're with Simeon. He lives gorgeously, I'm told." "About like a lone American guest in a twenty-franc-per-day hotel in Paris. Why, yes, they're very comfortable there all but the girl. She's discontented and unhappy, if I'm any judge, and is besieged day and night by the mourning faithful, not to speak of certain amorous males."
A negro, gorgeously clad, guarding closely a slim female, draped from head to foot in virginal white, attracted the musician. The man's face was monstrous in its suggestion of evil, and furthermore shocking, because his nose was a gaping hole. Evidently a scimiter had performed this surgical operation, Pobloff mused. The giant's eyes offended him, they so stared, and threateningly.
Gorgeously decorated as were the other apartments of his princely residence, this apartment, with its plain business-look its hard benches for such of the tenantry as came to him or his agent on business its walls garnished with abstracts of the Game and Poor Law Enactments its worn old chairs and heavy oak presses, the open doors of some of which disclosed bundles of old papers, parchments, etc. this little room, the only one almost ever seen by any save the aristocracy and their followers exercised and contained frequently more of human hope and fear than any other or the whole of the others of this sumptuous edifice.
The offices of Sylvester, Kuhn, and Graves, were on the sixteenth floor of a new and gorgeously appointed sky-scraper. When Captain Elisha entered the firm's reception room, he was accosted by a wide-awake and extremely self-possessed office boy. "Who'd you want to see?" asked the boy, briskly. The captain removed his hat and wiped his forehead with his handkerchief.
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