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Updated: June 2, 2025
The man took the scroll, and good-naturedly commenced reading its contents aloud. "I am called away, and cannot meet thee, Jacopo!" At the name of Jacopo, the tradesman dropped the paper and fled. The Bravo walked slowly back again towards the quay, ruminating on the awkward accident which had crossed his plans; his elbow was touched, and a masker confronted him when he turned.
Presently there stepped apart a masked form, who thus gave command in a rude sort of rhyme: "Hola, my merry mountaineers, Prepare a festive lay; Our gallant friend will measure trip While we a song essay." Each other masker thereupon drew a rapier, and turned its point to centre. "Unbind the captive, give him room; Now, friend, pray mind your play.
She was delighted to hear that the masker who was with me in the parlour was the English ambassador, but she became nobly disdainful when I told her that he would gladly give a hundred guineas a month for the pleasure of visiting her in the parlour.
"Ho, ho," said the masker, and his hollow voice sounded yet more hollow through his vizard, "comest thou here to die, stranger? See, thy brave mantle of triple-pile and golden broidery will not save thee from the gavocciolo. Replying not to this hideous welcome, Adrian, for it was he, pursued his way.
"I have come here to give you a confidential message." "Why confidential and from whom?" she asked, standing against the wall and surveying the mysterious masker. "From a gentleman friend of yours Mr. Henfrey." "From Hugh?" she gasped. "Do you know him?" "Yes." "I expected him to come with us to-night, but he has vanished from his hotel." "I know. That is why I am here," was the reply.
The ball had been in full progress for an hour when a masker, who from his entrance had stood leaning against the wall, suddenly left his isolated position and walked up to one of the ladies. "Conceal your face and figure as you will, Miss Meredith, you cannot conceal your grace. Wilt honour me with this quadrille?" "La, Sir Frederick!
"Chance hath given thee the extreme left." "Thou hast forgotten to call the fisherman," observed the masker, as he drove his own gondola into its station. "Does the hoary fool persist in exposing his vanity and his rags to the best of Venice?" "I can take place in the rear," meekly observed Antonio.
His unlucky voice was, in fact, drowned in the uproar which rose around him. The little boy scraped away at his cauldron with more spirit than ever; and, to crown all, an old woman had just placed on the tripod a frying-pan of grease, which hissed away on the fire with a noise similar to the cry of a troop of children in pursuit of a masker.
At Nice, in Spain, or in Italy, it may be occasionally possible to feel you want to dance about the streets in thin costume during February. But in more northern countries during Carnival time I have seen only one sensible masker; he was a man who had got himself up as a diver. It was in Antwerp.
"Good-evening" said the parson. He was, about to add "Miss Isabel," but the words stuck in his throat. "She ain't to home," answered Isabel. "My niece ain't to home." The parson had bent forward, and was eyeing her curiously, yet with benevolence. He knew all the residents within a large radius, and he expected, at another word from the shadowy masker, to recognize her also.
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