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From the Porta Romana of Siena or the outlook of the Servi, you gaze southward across the barren, scorched valleys to the far-away mountains, to Monte Amiata, the fairest mountain of Tuscany. From the Ypres Tower of Rye or the Gun Garden below it, you look only across the level and empty Marsh which sinks beyond Camber Castle imperceptibly into the greyness and barrenness of the sea.
Andrea chose this because it was near his work, and also because his great friends, Sansovino and Rustici, already lived there. Commissions began to pour in on him, which he fulfilled, while still at work at the Servi. Judging from the style of his early manner, we may date at this time a Virgin and Child, with S. John and S. Joseph, now in the Pitti.
This was also published in the black frame beside the great door of the Frari and posted upon the entrance to the church of the Servi, while in the refectories of the respective convents it formed a theme of absorbing interest. The Frari discussed the possibilities of childish mouthpieces for learned doctors, miraculously concealed but low, for fear of scandal.
"Yet as brothers of one holy order thou mayest confide in me, if perchance it may bring thee comfort. For us of the Servi it is our duty of service." Fra Francesco sat for a moment in silence. "Life is heavy," he said slowly, "and hard to interpret. Yet I seem to feel that thou wilt understand, though it be in the very matter of our difference.
She was too keenly interested not to put the further question: "Is it safe for Fra Paolo to lead this controversy? Is it pleasing to his order?" Giustinian gave a contemptuous laugh. "Thou mayest well ask! Fra Paolo also would not hear of it at first, foreseeing where it might lead. But from urgency of the Senate he yielded if the consent of the general of the Servi were first won.
They missed him in the Servi, where already they were beginning to gather up the pale happenings of his convent life with the kindly recollection which tinged them with a thread of romance, as his brothers of the order rehearsed them in the cloistered ways where he would come no more; for to him some ministry of beauty had always been assigned.
As he moved slowly forward and stood before this magnificent assembly with the same simple dignity that had characterized him among the friars of the Servi, after the splendors of the ducal costume, the scarlet, the ermine, the beretta, the gold-brocaded mantle, the plain folds of the violet robe of the Counsellor seemed almost austere.
Le souper est servi, the evening is gone, and I have done nothing but chat with you and smoke: is that not becoming employment for the dike-captain? Why not? A mysterious letter from lies before me.
"Le dîner est servi, Madame," said the voice of Frederic at the door. "We won't wait for the girls. They will be down in a moment," said Mrs. Gray, as she led the way to the dining-room. The sound of their feet on the staircase was heard as she spoke; and down they ran, the elder two in pretty dresses of thin white woollen stuff, which Candace in her unworldliness thought fine enough for a party.
His uncle had made an excellent match for him; he was to marry a girl who was extremely pretty, and also the heiress of the house of Grimani de Servi. The only redeeming feature in the young man's character was that he had a mortal hatred of all kinds of play. Since my bank had been broken I had been at Goudar's, but I would not listen to his proposal that I should join them again.
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