" The Donna Giulietta rang for her mantle and attendants.

Donna Giulietta was not permitted to go unattended to her boat, for this was a family in which the inclinations had fortunately seconded the ordinary calculations of interest when the nuptial knot was tied.

I hope you have duly considered the necessity of shutting the door even against the Donna Giulietta to-night?" "Doubt me not, Signore; the affairs of St. Mark are paramount.

" "Donna Giulietta is eloquent in praise of her beauty," said the young husband.

You are yet young, Signore Soranzo, and the Donna Giulietta is of rare beauty!

The Donna Giulietta had returned, fresher and more lovely than ever, from the invigorating sea-breeze, and her soft voice, with the melodious laugh of his first-born, the blooming, ringlet-covered girl described, still rang in his ears, when his gondolier landed him beneath the bridge of the Rialto.

The piece was Romeo and Giulietta.

The actress who did the part of Giulietta performed it with great effect, particularly in the tomb scene.

As she was busy doing this, she suddenly heard the voice of Giulietta behind her.

"At the Convent," said Agnes, raising herself from her work, and smiling at Giulietta, in her frank, open way.

"Simple child!" said Giulietta, laughing; "that wasn't what he meant you to do with it.

"I could tell you something about this one," said Giulietta.

" "I don't want one, Giulietta.

" "Who's touching your child?" said Giulietta, scornfully.

" So saying, old Elsie drew Agnes rapidly along with her, leaving Giulietta rolling her great black eyes after them with an air of infinite contempt.

Conspicuous among them all was Giulietta, her blue-black hair recently braided and polished to a glossy radiance, and all her costume arranged to show her comely proportions to the best advantage,her great pearl ear-rings shaking as she tossed her head, and showing the flash of the emerald in the middle of them.

Giulietta, however, had come into the world, so to speak, with a gold spoon in her mouth,since her grandmother, a thriving, stirring, energetic body, had got together a pair of ear-rings of unmatched size, which had descended as heirlooms to her, leaving her nothing to do but display them, which she did with the freest good-will.

"Giulietta," at last said the young man, earnestly, when he found her accidentally standing alone by the parapet, "I must be going to-morrow.

" "Well, what is that to me?" said Giulietta, looking wickedly from under her eyelashes.

I don't know anything about you"; but as Giulietta said this, her great, soft, dark eyes looked out furtively, and said just the contrary.

Pray, how far is it to your dreadful old den?" "Only two days' journey, Giulietta.

little Agnes?" said Giulietta.

Why, Giulietta, we are all very pious, and never think of going out without saying our prayers.

What with roystering fellows and smooth-tongued gallants, and with silly, empty-headed hussies like that Giulietta, one has much ado to keep the best of them straight.

The "Giulietta" of Luigi da Porta was written about 1520.