A GARDEN IN VENICE 



and this Paron was a Greek. Well, it was 

 all the same, Greek, Francese, Inglese ; he 

 was a foreigner, for he did not live on the 

 Giudecca. 



Pietro was right, his Paron was a Greek. 



I asked if I could rent the garden ? " No." 

 " Well, a bit of it ? " To oblige me, yes, he would 

 let me the cypress plot (twenty yards square, out 

 of some four acres) . I said it was not much ; 

 and he, that the orto was very valuable ; but he 

 would let me the cypresses, and give me leave to 

 walk about the orchard — a permission that did 

 not cost him anything, for, as he saw, I could 

 not walk. " How much ? " " Would I give him 

 a parola of how much I was ready to pay ? " 

 Then Eugenio said the parola must come from 

 him. " Well, as I was ill, and he wished me well, 

 and he would like to do the Signore a kindly 

 action, therefore he would let him the plot for 

 nine hundred lire." " My Signore is tired now," 

 said Eugenio, and he took me away. 



When out again in the lagoon Eugenio said, 

 "Lascia mi fare, the brigand, that is what he 



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