A Venetian June

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Venice

A Venetian Thoroughfare

A Pair of Pollys

IV A Reverie

The Signora

A Festa

Gathering Poppies

The Pulse of the Sea

By-ways of Venice

A Benediction

At Torcello

A Promotion

Illuminations

A Summer's Day

June Roses

A Surrender

The Serenata

Search-Lights

"Decus et Praesidium"

Title: A Venetian June

Author: Anna Fuller

Language: English

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By Anna Fuller


A Literary Courtship
A Venetian June
Peak and Prairie
Pratt Portraits
Later Pratt Portraits
One of the Pilgrims
Katherine Day
A Bookful of Girls


The Thunderhead Lady
By Anna Fuller and Brian Read







May watched the yacht until it disappeared from sight

"May watched the yacht until it disappeared from sight"ToList








A
Venetian
June




By
Anna Fuller





With 16 Illustrations in Color
by Frederick S. Coburn





New York & London
G. P. Putnam's Sons
The Knickerbocker Press








Copyright, 1896
by
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS



Copyright, 1913
by
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS



23d Printing





The Knickerbocker Press, New York







To

ELENA

If from the flower of thy perfect gift
One drop of cordial be distilled, 'tis thine.







Contents


CHAPTER   PAGE
I.— Venice 3
II.— A Venetian Thoroughfare 13
III.— A Pair of Pollys 25
IV.— A Reverie 37
V.— The Signora 49
VI.— A Festa 65
VII.— Gathering Poppies 87
VIII.— The Pulse of the Sea 109
IX.— By-ways of Venice 129
X.— A Benediction 145
XI.— At Torcello 163
XII.— A Promotion 179
XIII.— Illuminations 197
XIV.— A Summer's Day 219
XV.— June Roses 239
XVI.— A Surrender 253
XVII.— The Serenata 269
XVIII.— Search-Lights 285
XIX.— "Decus Et Praesidium" 301







Illustrations


  PAGE
"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










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