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Along the Riva their radiant, dark faces gleamed in the sunshine, where they stood in serried ranks, picturesque in all the brilliant coloring that their rustic wardrobes held in store for these days of festa; silken shawls that were heirlooms strings of coral and amber and great Venetian beads of every tint, or an edge of old lace on the gala fazzuolo that many a noble lady might be proud to wear; everywhere there was color against the background of festive garlands and brilliant rugs decking the balconies of the palaces a dazzling picture in the sunshine, under the blue of the Venetian sky.
This also this last longing she must surrender! Her white face grew brave again; she sat down and drew her veil the ample fazzuolo of the Muranese more closely about her. "I am ready," she said, and turned her face resolutely forward. As they rounded San Giorgio, turning into the broad Giudecca, a shoal of little boats came over the water from Murano.
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