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Updated: September 13, 2025
"I will take the Duchess home," said the Prince, "and make a last attempt afterwards?" "Afterwards," cried Vendramin, anxiously, "promise to call for me at Florian's." "I will." This dialogue, in modern Greek, with which Vendramin and Emilio were familiar, as many Venetians are, was unintelligible to the Duchess and to the Frenchman.
As to Vendramin, if he cannot understand this sublime music, he is perhaps incurable." "If you would but tell me the cause of their madness, I could cure them," said the Frenchman. "And since when have great physicians ceased to read men's minds?" said she, jestingly. The ballet was long since ended; the second act of Mose was beginning. The pit was perfectly attentive.
Perhaps she was murmuring melodious litanies to the Virgin, while the demoniacal cravings of the flesh were haunting you with their shameless clamor, and you disdained the divine fruits of that ecstasy in which I live, though shortening my life." "Your exaltation, my dear Vendramin," replied Emilio, calmly, "is still beneath reality.
"My poor grand-aunt, Pisana Vendramin; he went and killed her with those songs of his, with that Aria dei Mariti." I feel senseless rage overcoming me. The people round the piano, the furniture, everything together seems to get mixed and to turn into moving blobs of color.
While seeming to avoid the Procuratessa Vendramin, Zaffirino took the opportunity, one evening at a large assembly, to sing in her presence. He sang and sang and sang until the poor grand-aunt Pisana fell ill for love.
I accepted, for I was determined to serve in the army. M. Pierre Vendramin, an illustrious senator, obtained me the favour of a passage to Constantinople with the Chevalier Venier, who was proceeding to that city in the quality of bailo, but as he would arrive in Corfu a month after me, the chevalier very kindly promised to take me as he called at Corfu.
The rest of the course is a reduced magnificence, in spite of interesting bits, of the battered pomp of the Pesaro and the Cornaro, of the recurrent memories of royalty in exile which cluster about the Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, once the residence of the Comte de Chambord and still that of his half-brother, in spite too of the big Papadopoli gardens, opposite the station, the largest private grounds in Venice, but of which Venice in general mainly gets the benefit in the usual form of irrepressible greenery climbing over walls and nodding at water.
He had also to pay a hundred francs a year as wages to his father's old gondolier; and he, to serve him for that sum, had to live exclusively on rice. Also he kept enough to take a cup of black coffee every morning at Florian's to keep himself up till the evening in a state of nervous excitement, and this habit, carried to excess, he hoped would in due time kill him, as Vendramin relied on opium.
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