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He was followed by a graver pedant, who threw a heavy offering on the altar of the Graces; PARABOSCO, who in six books of "Lettere Amorose," 1565, 8vo. was too phlegmatic to sigh over his inkstand. Denina mentions LEWIS PASQUALIGO of Venice as an improver of these amatory epistles, by introducing a deeper interest and a more complicate narrative.
'It depends upon what you mean by the spot, replied Pasqualigo. 'Your information is second-hand, observed Barizy. 'But you acknowledge it is correct? said Pasqualigo, more eagerly. 'It depends upon whether your friend was present and here Barizy hesitated. 'It does, said Pasqualigo. 'Then he was present? said Barizy. 'He was.
'The Arabs care shroff for your Turkish garrison of the city, said Barizy, with great derision. 'They are eight hundred strong, said Pasqualigo. 'Eight hundred weak, you mean. No, as Raphael Tafna was saying, when Mehemet. Ali was master, the tribes were quiet enough. But the Turks could never manage the Arabs, even in their best days.
'I would have you to know, Monsieur Pasqualigo, who call yourself consul, that the city of Jerusalem is not only the city of God, but has ever been the delight and pride of man. 'Pish! said Pasqualigo. 'Poh! said Barizy. 'I am not at all surprised that Besso got out of it as soon as he possibly could. 'You would not dare to say these things in his presence, said Barizy.
'Every drop of his blood, exclaimed the leader of the strange Arabs, 'is worth ten thousand piastres. Plans for Rescue THERE is Besso? said Barizy of the Tower, as the Consul Pasqualigo entered the divan of the merchant, about ten days after the departure of Tancred from Jerusalem for Mount Sinai. 'Where is Besso? I have already smoked two chibouques, and no one has entered except yourself.
'I am sure a Greek never would, said Barizy, 'unless he were a Russian prince. 'And a Russian does not care much for rosaries unless they are made of diamonds, said Pasqualigo. 'As far as I can make out this morning, said Barizy of the Tower, 'it is a brother of the Queen of England.
The distance sailed is given by Soncino at four hundred leagues; but Pasqualigo, writing to Venice, gives it at seven hundred leagues, equivalent to two thousand two hundred twenty-six miles, which is very nearly the distance between Bristol and Cape Breton as now estimated.
'He is very young, said Barizy of the Tower; 'younger than the Queen, which is one reason why he is not on the throne, for in England the eldest always succeeds, except in moveables, and those always go to the youngest. Barizy of the Tower, though he gave up to Pasqualigo in theology, partly from delicacy, being a Jew, would yield to no man in Jerusalem in his knowledge of law.
This was Signor Pasqualigo, one of those noble Venetian names that every now and then turn up in the Levant, and borne in the present case by a descendant of a family who for centuries had enjoyed a monopoly of some of the smaller consular offices of the Syrian coast.
'He has been absent six months; he has been in Egypt. 'To see the temples of the fire-worshippers, and to shoot crocodiles. They all do that, said the Consul Pasqualigo. 'How glad he must be to get back to Jerusalem, said Barizy of the Tower. 'There may be larger cities, but there are certainly none so beautiful. 'The most beautiful city in the world is the city of Venice, said Pasqualigo.
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