[A Wanderer in Venice by E.V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Venice CHAPTER XII 3/15
She has the large, black, oriental eyes, with that peculiar expression in them which is seen rarely among _Europeans_--even the Italians--and which many of the Turkish women give themselves by tinging the eyelid, an art not known out of that country, I believe.
This expression she has _naturally_--and something more than this.
In short--." The rest of this amour, and one strange scene to which it led, very like an incident in an Italian comedy, is no concern of this book. For those who wish to know more, it is to be found, in prose, in the Letters, and, in verse, in _Beppo_. On this his first visit to Venice, Byron was a private individual.
He was sociable in a quiet way, attending one or two salons, but he was not splendid.
And he seems really to have thrown himself with his customary vigour into his Armenian studies; but of those I speak elsewhere.
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