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Another martyr, Ugo Bassi, had kissed the stone, exclaiming: 'Next to God and Italy before the Pope Manin! The people gathered up the broken fragments and kept them as relics, even as in their hearts they kept his memory, till the arrival of that day of redemption which, in the darkest hour, he foretold.
"You may all laugh," replied Denis, "but I know such things to have a manin'. When my mother died, didn't my father, the heavens be his bed! see a black coach about a week before it? an' sure from the first day she tuck ill, the dead-watch was heard in the house every night: and what was more nor that, she kept warm until she went into her grave; * an' accordingly, didn't my sisther Shibby die within a year afther?"
In the busy years that followed on this trip Colonel Conwell spent a long time gathering materials for a biography of Daniel Manin, and just before it was ready for the press the manuscript was destroyed by fire in the destruction of his home at Newton Centre, Massachusetts, in 1880.
His friends' arguments and illustrations had apparently a depressing effect upon old Felix, and he said with impatience, "Weary on it, man-alive! Sure there's no doubt about what he was manin', at all at all. The question is, have we any call to be takin' him at his word, and spendin' it away from aught 'ud do him a benefit the buryin' and Masses and such?"
I've the powdher an' shot here; we may as well bring her, an' have a slap at them. One o' the officers in the barracks of keeps me in powdher an' shot, besides givin' me an odd crown, an' I keep him in game." "Why, thin, boys," observed Rody, "what's the manin' o' this? two o' the biggest inimies in Europe last night an' this mornin' an' now as great as two thieves! How does that come?"
Would they not think you had cunningly arranged this trap?" A light of reason slowly reappeared in the younger man's eyes. "No!" Manin pressed his advantage. "You must wait until " He broke off abruptly and stepped behind his counter, for a man in the uniform of a Spanish lieutenant had entered the store. The new-comer walked directly to O'Reilly; he was a clean-cut, alert young fellow.
Rival cathedrals The lure of S. Mark's The façade at night The Doge's device S. Mark's body A successful theft Miracle pictures Mosaic patterns The central door Two problems The north wall The fall of Venice Napoleon The Austrian occupation Daniele Manin Victor Emmanuel An artist's model The south wall The Pietra del Bando The pillars from Acre. Of S. Mark's what is one to say?
The police have an eye upon this house, Michel is waiting for you at No. 70, Rue Blanche, a few steps from here." I knew No. 70, Rue Blanche. Manin, the celebrated President of the Venetian Republic, lived there. It was not in his rooms, however, that the meeting was to take place. The porter of No. 70 told me to go up to the first floor.
When Lodovico Manin, the last Doge, came to the throne, in 1788, Venice was, of course, no longer the great power that she had been; but at any rate she was Venice, the capital of a republic with the grandest and noblest traditions. She had even just given one more proof of her sea power by her defeat of the pirates of Algiers.
"It was in Venice at the church of Santa Maria Madalena the picture there that " "You remember aright!" interrupted John Manning. "My wife is the living image of the Venetian woman for whose beauty Marco Manin was one day stabbed in the back with a glass stiletto and Giovanni Manin fled from the place of his birth and never saw it again. It is idle to fight against the stars in their courses.
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