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Updated: May 21, 2025
The palace of the doge, and the houses along the Canal Grande, were illuminated in the most brilliant manner, and gave light to hundreds of gondolas, which also were made luminous with divers-colored lamps. After a promenade of two hours, and a splendid display of fireworks in the midst of the waters, the ball opened in the palace of the doge.
For her own person, It beggared all description; she did lie In her pavilion cloth-of-gold of tissue Outpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature; on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colored fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool."
Vervain's entreaties to remain, and took leave as soon as the gondola landed. The ladies went to their room, where Florida lifted from the table a vase of divers-colored hyacinths, and stepping out upon the balcony flung the flowers into the canal. As she put down the empty vase, the lingering perfume of the banished flowers haunted the air of the room.
But they have left plenty of tangible evidence behind, in the shape of numerous deeply worn trails leading from the bluffs to the creek. The prairie hereabouts is spangled with a wealth of divers-colored flowers that fill the morning air with gratifying perfume.
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