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Updated: June 17, 2025
He was well enough at times to resume painting, but never in full health again. That very summer he was sent to the Hospice of Sta. The Hospice stands on a high hill, just the place for Roman fever to disappear as if by magic for a time, and the patient, relieved of his lassitude, set to work with energy, aided by Fra Paolino and Fra Agostino.
When he rejoined his companions he kissed Rosamund's hand, and Renee, despite a confused feeling of humiliation and anger, loved him for it. Glittering Venice was now in sight; the dome of Sta. Maria Salute shining like a globe of salt. Roland flung his arm round his friend's neck, and said, 'Forgive me. 'You do what you think right, said Beauchamp.
As the moon rose, Venice stood revealed an enchanted city, a place of beauty, touched as of old with a magic wand. Hark already the clock was striking the hour of two! Andrea's eyes wandered from one familiar object to another the Ducal Palace, the new Campanile, the column of St. Theodore, and, beyond, the dome of Sta. Maria della Salute. He held his breath, it was so wonderful.
The hissing sound of S entered into the ramifications of so many sounds, as in STA, STU, SPA, SPE, that it would have required a large addition to his alphabet to meet this demand.
About Christmas time it is "in a state deeper than rest": "A kind of sleepy Venus seemed Dudu." But from May to November it is the rainy season. The rain comes down "a sheet of solid water, and often there is lightning accompanied by deafening peals of thunder." The capital, Sta. Isabel, nee Clarence, did not prepossess him.
To free herself the more, however, she now quitted the Jesuit father whom her husband had chosen for her, and in his stead took Abbe Pisoni, the rector of the little church of Sta. Brigida, on the Piazza Farnese, close by.
I must tell you, Monsieur l'Abbe, that Monsieur Habert is a passionate lover of our city; he will be able to show you all its finest sights." * The allusion is to a statue representing St. Theresa in ecstasy, with the Angel of Death descending to transfix her with his dart. It stands in a transept of Sta. Maria della Vittoria. Trans.
There's a note or twa in that drawer a' savit, an' if ye kent ony man that wud gie her a bite o' grass and a sta' in his stable till she followed her maister "Confoond ye, Weelum," broke out Drumsheugh; "its doonricht cruel o' ye to speak like this tae me.
There were also some entertaining speculations as to what they would do and what they would try to save in such an emergency. "For myself," said Mrs. Barker audaciously, "I should certainly let Mr. Barker look after Sta and confine myself entirely to getting away with my diamonds. I know the wretch would never think of them."
He jumped up with an alacrity remarkable in so solid and well-furnished a person, and had thrown open the nail-studded front-door before Lucia had traversed the path of broken paving-stones, for she had lingered for a sad moment at Perdita's empty border. "Lucia mia!" he exclaimed. "Ben arrivata! So you walked from the station?" "Si, Peppino, mio caro," she said. "Sta bene?"
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