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On the Rialto, every night at twelve, I take my evening's walk of meditation: There we two will meet. Venice Preserved. Full of sinister augury, for which, however, I could assign no satisfactory cause, I shut myself up in my apartment at the inn, and having dismissed Andrew, after resisting his importunity to accompany him to St.
Sweeping northwards from Herald Square as far as Forty-seventh Street, the Rialto, on this particular morning, did full credit to the famous public mart in Venice, from which it took its picturesque name.
This noble painting, possibly the last from his brush, was found in Mantegna's studio after his death. Notice the smoking candle-wick at the foot, and the motto which says that everything that is not of God is as smoke evanescent. A steamboat station for passengers going towards the Rialto is opposite the Ca' d'Oro calle.
I spoke in pluralities, Signore, because the Rialto has some stake in this marriage as well as the house of Gradenigo." "I understand thee. Thou hast fears for thy gold?" "Had I been easily alarmed, Signor Giacomo, in that particular, I might not have parted with it so readily.
The Café Zinkand formed, at the time, a social nodule in the metropolitan parish that San Francisco was. As the Palace Hotel was its Rialto, gathering-place for prosperous adventure, so the Zinkand was its bourne.
There is always near the Rialto a tumult of boats and gondolas and of stagnant islets of tied-up craft drying their tawny sails, which are sometimes traversed by a large cross....
"And the old man was not with the Phenomenon? What has become of her, then?" "Perhaps she may be with him at his house, if he has one; only, she was not with him on the Rialto or Cornmarket. She was with him two years ago, I know; and he and she were better off then than he is now, I suspect.
Below and beyond the Rialto are grouped on both banks the ancient Fondaco dei Tedeschi, upon the colored walls of which, in uncertain tints, may be devined some frescoes of Titian and Tintoretto, like dreams which come only to vanish; the fish-market, the vegetable market, and the old and new buildings of Scarpagnino and of Sansovino, almost fallen in ruins, in which are installed various courts....
An exiled Californian, mourning over the city of his heart, has said: "In a half an hour of Kearney street I could raise a dozen men for any wild adventure, from pulling down a statue to searching for the Cocos Island treasure." This is hardly an exaggeration, it was the Rialto of the desperate, Street of the Adventurers.
I see her pass with his fazer every night on Rialto Bridge We did not spoke yet only with the eyes. The lady is not of Venice. She has four thousand florins. It is not much no. But!" Is not this love at first sight almost idyllic? Is it not also a sublime prudence to know the lady's fortune better than herself, before herself?
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