Illustrations

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"May Watched the Yacht Until it Disappeared from Sight"[Frontispiece]
"Between Frowning Walls and Low-arched Bridges"[4]
"Time-worn Palaces, and the Darkly Doubtful Water at their Base"[6]
"On a Stone Bridge, Leaning Against the Iron Railing, Stood a Woman in a Sulphur Shawl"[8]
"They Were Passing the Charming Little Gothic Palace Known as the House of Desdemona"[14]
"They had Mounted to the High Gallery that Spans the Space between Pillar and Pillar"[50]
"The Gondola is the Centre of Everything; it is Venice and a Living Creature Besides"[72]
"Now and then they Stopped at Some Doorway Opening upon the Water, where they Landed"[138]
"A Courtyard Embellished by an Exquisite Old Stone Staircase"[140]
"The Madonnas, under their Iron Canopies, Looked down, Serene and Beneficent"[142]
"Where the Loveliest of All the Parasol Madonnas Keeps Guard over the Still Lagoon"[166]
"The Morning was Truly Venetian, Soft and Fair as a Dream"[170]
"Under the Beautiful Colonnade of the Cathedral"[172]
"May Watched the Water-logged Craft as it Vanished under a Distant Bridge"[224]
"The Serenata"[272]
"It Seems as if the Lagoons Belonged to them this Evening"[316]