Rome And Venice With Other Wanderings in Italy in 1866 7
Rome And Venice With Other Wanderings in Italy in 1866 7
Sala George Augustus
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" Aha ! it is the aide-de-camp, now, who has to " wait down-stairs" in the cold, and is of less 212 HOME AND VENICE. account than the meanest creature on the Canareggio. This is, I am aware, very unchristian and very uncharitable ; but it is human nature ; and if you will be good enough to mul- tiply by five thousand the feelings of annoyance I Buffered through a temporary slight in the citadel of Verona last June, and add to the product a long-accumulated score of hatred and disgust, you may f...orm some idea of the sentiment en- tertained by the Venetians for the now ousted Government by which they have been, for so many years, bullied, out- raged, and oppressed. I was at Florian's until very late, and at the Specchi until later, and at Quadri's, and, indeed, wherever there was a chance of seeing Venetian life on the Eve of Liberation ; but up to the time I went to bed, which was at a most unholy hour, there were Austrian officers about. Wrapped in their gray gaberdines, their lorgnons faithful to their mild blue eyes, their sabres still clanking, their spurs still jingling on the pavement, their white teeth, blonde whiskers, and fresh complexions still gleaming in the gas, they continued, until the night was very old, to vindicate their claim to be the best " set-up, " most soldier-like, and most gentlemanly- looking officers in Europe.
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