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I wrote eighteen notes before I went to bed, and in the morning a confidential servant had delivered them before nine o'clock. At nine o'clock I went to take leave of Count Verita, who gave me, on behalf of the Elector, a superb gold snuff-box with his portrait set in diamonds.
It is called the Bocca della Verita, and has given its name to the irregular piazza in which the church is situated. It is so called from the use to which it has been put from time immemorial, as an ordeal for testing the guilt or innocence of an accused person.
I did not care to satisfy the general curiosity, but made my way from one side of the room to the other till I found the object of my search talking to Count Verita, and as I drew near I found out that they were talking of me.
Non sappiamo, in verita!" We really don't know! "I understand, Miss Wyllys, that your friend, Mr. Stryker, calls it the 'cafe de mille colonnes," said Mrs. Creighton. "Does Mrs. Creighton's friend, Mr. Stryker, treat it so disrespectfully? Mr. de Vaux has given it a very good name, I think. It is Broadlawn now; last year it was Colonnade Manor." "And, pray, what did Mr.
Give us the true message of Christ, undefiled! Sell these useless broidered silks, these flaunting banners; take the silver, gold, and bank- notes which hysterical pilgrims cast at your feet! this Peter's Pence, amounting to millions, whose exact total you alone know, and come out into the highways and byways of the cities of all lands, call to you the lame, the halt, the blind, the sickly, and diseased, give comfort where comfort is needed, defend the innocent protect the just, and silence the Voce de la Verita which published under your authority, callously advocates murder!"
I wrote eighteen notes before I went to bed, and in the morning a confidential servant had delivered them before nine o'clock. At nine o'clock I went to take leave of Count Verita, who gave me, on behalf of the Elector, a superb gold snuff-box with his portrait set in diamonds.
Below this was a huddle and smudge of words, from which adjectives darted out like dim flame amidst smoke. "Gigantic" showed in its entity followed by an unintelligible erasure. At the end this line was the legend "3 Feet High." "Verita Visitor," appeared below, and beyond it, what seemed to be the word "Void."
I got in easily and unperceived, and recognized all the ladies of Cologne without their masks, and my mistress sitting at a faro-table risking a ducat. I was glad to see in the banker, Count Verita of Verona, whom I had known in Bavaria. He was in the Elector's service. His small bank did not contain more than five or six ducats, and the punters, men and women, were not more than twelve.
Bruhl, breakfast, a score of people like the Prince Deux-Ponts, invitations to the ladies, Count Verita; I knew as much as she could have told me if she had taken an hour. I left the room in my peasant's dress, and begged a page to take me to Count Verita, who began to laugh on seeing my attire. I told my business with the importance of an ambassador, and this made him in a still better humour.
The city was preparing for her ecclesiastical festival, and I went ashore at once to see her at her best. The landing-place is poor and mean, and the dusty and sandy walk is garnished with a single row of that funereal shrub, the milky euphorbia. The first sensation came from the pillars of an unfinished house "Care colonne, che fate qua? Non sappiamo in verita!"
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