" You drop your purse in the street.

Nobody knows exactly what they are for; but if any one steps upon them, up spirts something like a stream of gas, and takes the form of a gendarme,and the unlucky street-walker must pay dear for his carelessness.

The actual state of things might be represented on canvas by a gaping, laughing crowd pressing around a Punch-and-Judy exhibition in the street, beneath a great ruined palace in the process of repairing, where the rickety scaffolding, the loose stones and mortar, and in fact the whole rotten building, may at any moment topple down upon their heads.

The street-corners inform you that the members of the "Curling Club" are to meet to-day at "Dolly's," and the "Montreal Fox-hounds" at St. Lawrence Hall to-morrow.

There is many a man, now perchance hard and worldly, whom we love to pass in the street simply because in meeting him we meet spring flowers and autumn chestnuts, skates and cricket-balls, cherry-birds and pickerel.

thy theft); Some marching feet Found pause at last by cliffs Potomac cleft; Wakeful I mused, while in the street Far footfalls died away till none were left.

Each story is pierced by loop-holes for firing into the street below.

The lesser of the two palacesthe one on the right hand as you ascend the street of San Simone coming from the cathedralis more decorated to-day than any other in Lucca.

He leans out over the street, a cigar in his mouth.

He takes off his hat and bows; more silver coin comes clattering down on the pavement; there are fresh evvivas, fresh bows, and more scramblers cover the street.

The great wooden door to the street is locked; a heavy chain is drawn across it.

A great deal of sausage and garlic, washed down by new wine and light beer, has been by this time consumed in eating-shops and on street tables; much coffee, liqueurs, cake, and bonbons, inside the palaces.

Meanwhile the procession flashes from street to street.

Meanwhile the procession flashes from street to street.

who would have thought that old witch, the Guinigi," whispers CarlottaCarlotta owned a little mercery-shop in a side-street running by the palace, right under the towerto her gossip Brigitta, an occasional customer for cotton and buttons, "who would have thought that shegracious! who would have thought she dared to shut up her palace the day of the festival?

"One day, as I came out of my little shop, she"and Carlotta points with her thumb over her shoulder toward the street of San Simone and the Guinigi Palace"she was driving along the street in her old Noah's Ark of a carriage.

"One day, as I came out of my little shop, she"and Carlotta points with her thumb over her shoulder toward the street of San Simone and the Guinigi Palace"she was driving along the street in her old Noah's Ark of a carriage.

"Well, and what then?" "She hates him because he is rich and spends his money freely, and because shethe Guinigilives in the same street and sees it.

Enrica (that's the niece) at daybreak comes out to the arched gate-way that opens from the street into the Moorish garden at the farther side of the palaceshe comes out and talks to Nobili for half an hour, under cover of the ivy that hangs over the wall on that side.

They didn't see me, but I watched them from behind Pietro's house, at the corner of the street opposite.

There was the sound of a cart then coming along the street, and presto!Enrica was within the garden in an instant, the gate was closed, and Nobili disappeared.

Letters, glances, sighs, had passed across the street, from palace to palace at the Venetian casementsunder the darkly-ivied archway of the Moorish gardenat the cathedral in the gray evening light, or in the earliest glow of summer morningsand this, so seldom!

She felt painful doubts as to whether the splendors opposite had not so entirely engrossed public attention that no eye was left to observe any thing elseat least, in that street.

All the windows this way faced toward the garden, the wall of which ran parallel to the palace and to the street.

"I left them both in the street; they were to follow me up-stairs immediately.