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"All that can be seen from here is the suburbs," said the guide, in an offended tone. "When you enter the Calle Real and the Calle de Condestable, you will see handsome buildings, like the cathedral." "I don't want to speak ill of Orbajosa before seeing it," said the young man.
A fondamenta runs right away from the Rialto bridge to a point just beyond the new fish market, with some nice houses on it, over shops, the one on the left of the fish market having very charming windows. The first palace of any importance is the dull red one on the other side of the Calle dei Botteri, the Don
Larralde turned sharply to the right as soon as he gained the Calle Preciados. It was a mere alley running the whole way round a church and here again was solitude, but not silence, for the wind roared among the chimneys overhead as it roars through a ship's rigging at sea.
Some months since three friends met together in an old-fashioned bookshop on the venerable Calle del Olivo a writer, a printer, and myself. "Fifteen years ago all three of us were anarchists," remarked the printer. "What are we today?" I inquired. "We are conservatives," replied the man who wrote. "What are you?" "I believe that I have the same ideas I had then."
As this friar, unattended and on foot, turned out of the narrow calle from San Samuele into the Campo San Stefano, the Giustiniani, father and son, were just landing from their gondolas in the midst of a gay retinue, on the steps of the palazzo Morosini; other gondolas of other nobles were floating in full moonlight before the quay; and to Fra Paolo, who did not share the Venetian love of color and of art, the elaborately frescoed façade of an opposite palace an extravagant freak of the Veronese's which the Venetians were already beginning to cherish as the work of their great artist who would paint no more seemed an impertinence unworthy of that dazzling illumination.
'The next morning, in the Diario de Gobierno, which Donna Teresa brought up with my chocolate, I learned that 'at about ten on the previous night, an American, named Percival, recently arrived from New-Orleans, was murdered in the Calle Plateros. His watch and purse were missing; it was therefore inferred that robbery and not revenge had prompted the foul deed.
On such a night the very spirit of Venice is abroad. We feel why she is called Bride of the Sea. Take yet another night. There had been a representation of Verdi's 'Forza del Destino' at the Teatro Malibran. After midnight we walked homeward through the Merceria, crossed the Piazza, and dived into the narrow calle which leads to the traghetto of the Salute.
Alicia looked at her watch. It was just six. Without upsetting the program for the evening, she could still afford the luxury of a little condescension. She ordered the coachman: "Number X, Calle Ballesta. Hurry!" For a moment the two young women remained silent. Suddenly Candelas exclaimed: "Have you seen what the papers have been saying about the robbery in Calle Mayor, last night?" "No.
Next the Casa Falier is a calle, and then the great Giustinian Lolin Palace with brown and yellow posts. Taglioni lived here for a while too.
Until one day it happened that, walking through a lane or calle which skirted Messer Pietro's palace, he caught sight of Elena's nurse, who was knocking at the door, returning from some shopping she had made. This nurse had been his own nurse in childhood; therefore he remembered her, and cried aloud, "Nurse, Nurse!"
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