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Updated: May 7, 2025
"For it is a night of pearl-like radiancies and velvet shadows and delicate odors and big friendly stars that promise not to gossip, whatever happens. It is a night that hungers, and all its undistinguishable little sounds are voicing the night's hunger for masks and mandolins, for rope-ladders and balconies and serenades.
The gaudily trapped saloons, cafés, and music halls, spoke a similar message. This was the recreation spot of the people of the quarter; their land of lethe. So near were the saloons and drinking gardens that from their open doorways there came a pungent odor of beer. Every place had instrumental music of some kind. Mandolins and guitars, in the hands of gentlemen of color, were the favorites.
Norine's protests at leaving Esteban went unheeded, and Leslie Branch escorted her in place of the bridegroom, who lay blissfully dreaming in his hammock. Her amazement passed all bounds when, from the hidden recess behind the palm-leaves, came not the music of mandolins and guitars, but the strains of a balanced orchestra under the leadership of Cuba's most eminent bandmaster.
These things, combined with the fact that she unexpectedly found the ladies of the Empress's court wearing pocket sleeves, shaped like overgrown mandolins, and almost dragging on the rushes as they walked, whereas her own were of the old-fashioned open cut, had filled her soul with bitterness against the legitimate heir to King Henry's throne and had made the one-sided barrier between herself and her husband which she could see so plainly, but which was quite invisible to him finally and utterly impassable.
It was the sort of thing the young people of Aden dwellers in the various frame houses about the town, all sojourners from a common cause, somebody's health it was the sort of thing these young people got up about every other night in the year. Two mandolins, a violin, and a harp made music.
"I am much better pleased with the diversions on the water, where all the town assembles every night, and never without music; but we have none so rough as trumpets, kettle-drums, and French horns: they are all violins, lutes, mandolins, and flutes doux.
"Is Polly the one with the pointed chin and the I-dare-you pout?" I asks. "No, that's Dot," says he. "Polly's the one with the cheek dimples and the disturbing eyes. She's a case, too." "They both look like they might be live wires," says I. "I see they've brought their mandolins, also. And what's so precious in the bundle you have on your knees?" "Jazz records," says Stanley.
Mark's Square, water, stars, Italian women, serenades, mandolins, Falernian wine in fact all is lost! Don't remember evil against me. The shade of the lovely Desdemona sends a smile to the District Captain. Greetings to all. The Jesuits send their love to you. VENICE, March 25, 1891. Bewitching blue-eyed Venice sends her greetings to all of you.
Like gipsies they would wander through the countless towns dotting the shores of the miraculous Bay; kissing on the open sea among the fisherboats, to the accompaniment of passionate Neapolitan boat-songs; spending whole nights in the open air, lying in each other's arms on the sands, hearing the pearly laughter of mandolins in the distance, just as that night on the island, they had heard the nightingale!
Cyclona fashioned the threshold of marble, she built the stairway spacious, she had the low divan carved in cedar and placed it before a wide and sunny window in the music room. She placed there mandolins and guitars. She ordered a piano made of cedar for the music room.
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