He pointed to himself and nodded to the picture and again proffered his open palm.

Such money as I have for free distribution among others is, however, not for this kind; but the idea that the privilege of seeing the picture in the making should carry with it an obligation to the sitter was so comic that I could not repulse him with the grave face that is important on such occasions.

Later in the same day I met the artist himself in the waters of the Lido--a form of rencontre that is very common in Venice in the summer.

The converse is, however, the more amusing and usually disenchanting: the recognition, in the Piazza, in the evening, in their clothes, of certain of the morning's bathers.

Disillusion here, I can assure you.
On the south wall of S.Mark's, looking over the Molo and the lagoon, is the famous Madonna before whom two lights burn all night.