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Updated: May 23, 2025
By sea it is connected by the Austrian-Lloyd weekly Albanian Line, and by one or two smaller steamers which occasionally call there, with Cattaro and the Albanian coast towns.
They stoned a few signs, notably the one over the empty office of the Austrian-Lloyd company, then, being turned from the Corso and the Austrian Embassy by the police, they rushed back up the hill to the Salandra residence, to hang about and yell themselves hoarse in the hope of evoking something from the former Premier.
Opposite the Loggia, on the other side of the street, is a highly decorative lintel, which appears to have belonged to a palace of the Cippico, with two contemplative lions and half-length angels in roundels with scrolls. The caps have the same kind of foliage as is seen at Curzoia and Sebenico. The Austrian-Lloyd office is on the ground floor of a tower of the Venetian period, now a nunnery.
"It would be worth your while," said Susanna, "the next time you find yourself in its vicinity, to do Sampaolo the honour of an inspection. It is easily reached. The Austrian-Lloyd coasting steamers from Venice call there once a week, and there is a boat every Monday and Thursday from Ancona.
Otherwise, I should have to go by the Austrian-Lloyd packet; and that would n't be half so comfortable." He, perforce, smiled too, though with manifest reluctance; and at the same time he frowned. "My dear, if it were possible, I should be angry with you. This is scarcely an appropriate hour for mystifications." "That it is n't," agreed Susanna, heartily.
No wonder it has taken these dreamers ten years to build three hundred and sixty miles of very cheap railroad. It was my misfortune to fall into a little old Austrian-Lloyd steamer called the "Daphne."
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