Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 108
ming it must be, you think, when you want tovisit a friend, to run down the marble steps of someold palace, step into a gondola, and glide swiftlyand noiselessly away, instead of jolting and rum-bling along over the cobble-stones ! And then tocome back by moonlight, and hear the low plashof the oar… … THE HORSES OF ST. MARK S. token of marriage between the sea and Venice !This was a custom instituted as far back as 1177.The Venetians having espoused the cause of thepope, Alexander III., against the emperor, Fred-eric Barbarossa, gained a great victory over theimperial fleet, and the pope, in…
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