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Over its arched and pillared entrance there was a balcony, richly hung

with tapestry and daentleroup of ladies The white hair and whiskers of

the forlish look; the

ladies, too, showed a fair-haired Saxon bloom, and seemed to taste the

mirth of the Carnival with the freshness of spectators to whorave earnestness, as if

he were defending a ra companions with exuberance of

frolic, showered confetti inexhaustibly upon the passers-by

In the rear of the balcony, a broad-brimmed, ecclesiastical beaver was

visible An abbate, probably an acquaintance and cicerone of the English

fah partially

withdrawn from view, as the decorum for his order dictated

There seemed no better nor other course for Kenyon than to keep watch at

this appointed spot, waiting for whatever should happen next Clasping

his ar carried away by the

turbulent stream of wayfarers, he scrutinized every face, with the idea

that soence

He looked at eachthat was absurdest,--not knowing but that the uise Or perhaps one of those quaint