He had Mariuccia carry the letter to the Palazzo Cormandola.
At half-past eleven, at least two hours after supper, Nino wrapped himself in my old cloak and took the guitar under his arm.

Rome is not a very safe place for midnight pranks, and so I made him take a good knife in his waistbelt; for he had confided to me where he was going.
I tried to dissuade him from the plan, saying he might catch cold; but he laughed at me.
A serenade is an everyday affair, and in the street one voice sounds about as well as another.

He reached the palace, and his heart sank when he saw Hedwig's window dark and gloomy.

He did not know that she was seated behind it in a deep chair, wrapped in white things, and listening for him against the beatings of her heart.

The large moon seemed to be spiked on the sharp spire of the church that is near her house, and the black shadows cut the white light as clean as with a knife.