Similar spars, with painted and ornamented heads, that sometimes bore the colors and arms of the proprietor, formed a sort of little haven for the gondolas of the household, before the door of every dwelling of mark.

Thou art well enough to row a gondola in the canals, Gino, or to follow thy master to his Calabrian castle; but if thou would'st know what passes in the wide world, thou must be content to listen to mariners of the long course.

The prize will be a silver gondola to him who is lucky or skilful enough to win; and then we shall have the nuptials with the Adriatic.

But how fares the world of Venice?and what dost thou among the canals at this season, to keep the flowers of thy jacket from wilting?" "To-day, as yesterday, and to-morrow will be as to-day I row the gondola from the Rialto to the Giudecca; from San Giorgio to San Marco; from San Marco to the Lido, and from the Lido home.

" "Thou wilt take thy choice of my gondolas for the regatta, Gino," observed the Duke of Sant' Agata, entering the pavilion, and throwing himself on the glossy black leathern cushions, without adverting to the suggestion of his servant.

I spent three hours in a gondola on the Grand Canal and up and down the Rii, filled with a dreamy amazement at the superb harmonies of form and colour of things both far away and close at hand.

" Antonio was hurried from the presence, and forced into his gondola with very unequivocal signs of disgrace.

"Hast ever swam in a gondola at Venice?

" "Thou hast forgotten to call the fisherman," observed the masker, as he drove his own gondola into its station.

He saw, at a glance, it was the treacherous gondola by which he had been duped.

"Look you, Ginothy master sometimes calls for his gondola between sunset and morning?" "An owl is not more wakeful than he has been of late.

Now I swept my gondola through the moonlit lagoons of Venice.

Presently they heard the wash of the water caused by the movement of a gondola beneath the window.

In less than a minute he was driving his gondola across the port, following the course of the felucca, whose white sail was visible in the moonlight, now bellying in the breeze, and now flapping as the mariners checked her speed.