The innocents abroad; . ace ; he called Paris Pair-ree in ordinary English conversation ;he carried envelopes bearing foreignpostmarks protruding from his breast-pocket ; he cultivated a moustache andimperial, and did what else he could tosuggest to the beholder his pet fancythat he resembled Louis Napoleon—and in a spirit of thankfulness which isentirely unaccountable, considering theslim foundation there was for it, hepraised his Maker that he was as hewas, and went on enjoying his littlelife just the same as if he really hadbeen deliberately designed and erected by the great Architectof the
The innocents abroad; . ace ; he called Paris Pair-ree in ordinary English conversation ;he carried envelopes bearing foreignpostmarks protruding from his breast-pocket ; he cultivated a moustache andimperial, and did what else he could tosuggest to the beholder his pet fancythat he resembled Louis Napoleon—and in a spirit of thankfulness which isentirely unaccountable, considering theslim foundation there was for it, hepraised his Maker that he was as hewas, and went on enjoying his littlelife just the same as if he really hadbeen deliberately designed and erected by the great Architectof the Universe. Think of our Whitcombs, and our Ainsworths and ourWilliamses writing themselves down in dilapidated Frenchin foreign hotel registers ! We laugh at Englishmen, whenwe are at home, for sticking so sturdily to their national waysand customs, but we look back upon it from abroad very forgiv-ingly. It is not pleasant to see an American thrusting hisnationality forward obtrusively in a foreign land, but Oh, it is. msieu gor-r-dong. SEEING THE SIGHTS. 235 pitiable to see him making of himself a thing that is neithermale nor female, neither fish, flesh, nor fowl—a poor, miser-able, hermaphrodite Frenchman! Among a long list of churches, art galleries, and suchthings, visited by us in Yenice, I shall mention only one—thechurch of Santa Maria dei Frari. It is about five hundredyears old, I believe, and stands on twelve hundred thousandpiles. In it lie. the body of Canova and the heart of Titian,under magnificent monuments. Titian died at the age ofalmost one hundred years. A plague which swept away fiftythousand lives was raging at the time, and there is notableevidence of the reverence in which the great painter washeld, in the fact that to him alone the state permitted a publicfuneral in all that season of terror and death. In this church, also, is a monument to the doge Foscari,whose name a once resident of Yenice, Lord Byron, has madepermanently famous. The monument
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