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themselves; they seem to agonize with
pleasure too great for the aching sense.
At the Hospitals and in Churches,
where it is not allowed to applaud in the
same manner as at the Opera, they
cough, hem, and blow their noses, to
express admiration.
During the last Carnival, there were
seven opera-houses open at once in Venice,
three serious, and four comic, besides four
play-houses, and these were all crowded
every night.
Monday, August 6. This morning the
Doge went in procession to the church of
S. Giovanni e Paolo. I was not only
curious to see this procession, but to hear
the music, which I expected would be
very considerable, and by a great band;
however there was only a mass sung in
four parts, without other instrument than
the organ, but then it was so good of the
kind, so well executed and accompanied,
that I do not remember ever to have re-
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