Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-12

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 At Boio9ta ortr rurty tUas r'e-cnf forced memory Do what would, kept looking at MT. Polenta and he at me. Finally be said with some tact:
 "Where have me met before, sr?
 "Just what I was trying to think, sir" said l. We neither of us could think but it ban ished the awkwardness
 So when we all arrived at Venice, and went out on the canal together, and met at the table d'hote at Daniellis, we felt like old friends. Twas permitted to hold Miss Emilyi color box while she sketched the Bridge oi Signs; Miss Sinclair and Polenta meantime were signing under the black canopy of the gondola. I gave Miss Emily solno hints as to her chiaroscuro. In fact, we had become such good friends that the colonel had prom. ised me that Miss Emily should sit to me foI my Euphrosyne; for, like most young paint CTS, had begun with the three graces, and was on my way toward the nine muses.
 It was now September, and we all meant to finger in Venice until November; the colonel, attracted by the thought that cer. tain great personages were coming through on their way to the great celebrations further south; I by the desire to haunt those galleries where Titan and Tintoretto still finger; the ladies charmed with gondola and Adriatic, and Polenta-well, no one asked or thought about him; at least did not.
 Emily showed me one day a good little sketch she had made of him as he talked tc her aunt. It was slightly caricatured.
 "Mephistopheles, call him." said she
 "Oh, no; not so bad as that" said I.
 II instnctively hate him." said she
 had got the arrangements made for the EuDhrosyne picture, and Miss Sinclair had reluctantly assisted. Emily, with her bright hair wreathed with green leaves, as the youngest of the graces, was the most exquis- ite of visions 1 did not wonder that her aunt found it sad enough to look at her. Probably she once had looked like that-a dream of youth, grace, love and delight. The business of playing propriety in a cor. ner, while younger and more beautiful woman is being adored, has never been sought for by elderly, fading maidens
 Swiftly. .as if piratical Turkish galleon had swept down on our little gondola, and had taken us all off to slavery did fate come down upon us and break up all OUT serena plans. Like fairy tale came in princes and princesses; royal expresses dashed through the Adriatic; heirs apparent came with great suites, and the grand canal was a glittering serpent with its gems of illumination Bril-, liant officers in glittering uniforms clanlled about Daniellis old nlusty halls, and glanced at Em1Iy as they met her with eyes that blaZed with admiration. The colonel, in the midst of all this movement had found some cOngenial spirits, and we saw little of him. The table Ghote caught son2o of the lesser lights, and as tho great people moved of we noticed one party who offered us some ele- Incnts of interest
 \ beautiful woman, a young man, her sen, { and a young girl, evidently an invalid, sat lS at toh \ lady of high rank-we may as well call her tho Princess Ci San Aiarco-was the beautiful woman, looking beside her son as if she might be his sister. He in turn W;.S like her, and beautiful. 1 use tho word advisedly and de liberately; there are few very beautiful men in the world. The young Prince Ccsare was one of them. The dark, smooth Neapolita1 skin covered some very perfect features il his face, and pair of soft black velvet eyes i finished and brilliant, even i'll that land ot eyes, lighted it up wonderfully. He had ( smile of the rarest and teeth such as 1 have never seen out of Italy. It was as if the 1 pearl had been prepared in the Orient, that lustrous pearl of the Cleopatra kind. The shadows would come and go ill his great eyes with every change of emotion, as lights anC | shadows strike across a lake. Then his smile like a burst of sunshine, would come anC make his beauty almost intolerab1e. Hi! l voice and manners were those of these rarely gifted people-soft, winning, at the same time manly and unaffected.
 I had an artistic pleasure in this youns mans beauty it having been my business tt find out and study physical beauty, as my profession demanded, and did not wonder when those magnetic eyes sought out tn steel gray eyes of my Euphrosyne; that he long lashes fell before them, and that tn 1 bal of ho6 foSo in the alien Italian air, came back to he cheeks in splendid freshness Prince Cesar, had but to give two or three glances of thos soft eyes of his across the table to take tn youngest of the graces captive. Soft eyes did I say? They held the fire of the old Ro man race in their liquid depths. Cesar came from the neighborhood of volcanoes and he looked it, with all his sweet, sof southern beauty.
 But am neglecting his sister, poor sicl girl, evidently little disturbed in her mind to whom the mother, brother and certau
 Dr. Sebastiani paid unremitting attention
 In her the family beauty was repeated, bu . in lesser degree, and paled and "siclaie o'ern by some mental cloud. She too ha'
 fixed her large black eyes on Emily, an threw us all into confusion by suddenly ad
 dressing her:
 1T want your grapes, said she in Italian. Her mother blushed deeply under he clear, dark, satin skin, and tried to silenc
 her. But the poor distraught wits had con . quered reason, and would not be silenced "I want your grapes" said she almos angrily.
 Then came in the exquisite tact, the VIC
 manly, quick wit, the sympathetic compre hension of the whole situation, which mad my Euphrosyne so superior to every othe
 woman have met, She gracefully detache e bunch of purple grapes, and handing theI CONTINUED.