Her comments on people about them, the nicknames she donated to them, convulsed Strong.

But who held part in this interesting ridotto to-night?" "Truly, Marco, I think some day perchance I may get a dispensation and have all the nuns of San Donate for baby's festa in the oratorywould it not be beautiful to hear them chanting in our own palazzo!

He lies buried in the ground he donated as "God's acre," with only this inscription at his head: "John Swisshelm, aged 86."

In St. Mark's at Venice, in the grand old basilica at Torcello, in San Donate at Murano, at Monreale, near Palermo, and in most of the old churches in the East of Europe, we find similar figures, either Byzantine in origin, or in imitation of the Byzantine style.

Bequests made to the highways or bridges were considered as donated in pios usus.