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Updated: May 13, 2025
Densher watched the gondola out of sight he heard Pasquale's cry, borne to him across the water, for the sharp firm swerve into a side-canal, a short cut to the palace. He had no gondola of his own; it was his habit never to take one; and he humbly as in Venice it is humble walked away, though not without having for some time longer stood as if fixed where the guest of the palace had left him.
And, as the bobbing lanterns disappeared down a black side-canal, the ringing voice echoed still from out the darkness: "Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia!" Search-Lights "I should not so much mind if there should be no moon to-night," said May, dipping her hand over the side of the boat, to feel the cool, soft wash of the wave. "Nothing could be lovelier than this," Pauline assented.
He opened the great doors gently, and came out into the soft spring night air. All was silent now. The narrow side-canal had a glimmer of moonlight, the opposite palace was black, with one spot of light where a window shone: overhead in the narrow rift of dark-blue sky a flock of stars flew like bright birds through the soft velvet gloom.
As the prow of the slender black bark entered a narrow side-canal and pursued its way between frowning walls and under low arched bridges, as the deep resonant cry of the gondolier rang out, and an answer came like an echo from the hidden recesses of a mysterious watery crossway, the spirit of Venice drew near to the three travellers, in whose minds its strange and exquisite suggestion was received with varying susceptibility.
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