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finest teeth in the world, with lively sparkl- ing eyes, and an elegant shaped face; She would, any where else, have been stiled a very pretty woman; but here, her situation exalted her into a beauty.
At the altar she changed countenance several times, first pale, then red, and seemed to pant, and to be in danger, of either bursting into tears, or fainting; but she recovered before the ceremony was ended, and at the convent door as- sumed an air of great chearfulness; talk- ing to several of her friends and acquaint- ance, and seeming to give up the world very heroically.--And thus ended this human sacrifice!
In the afternoon I went to the Chiesa Nuova, to hear an oratorio in that church, where the sacred drama took its rise. There are two galleries; in one there is an organ, and in the other a harpsi- chord; in the former the service was be- gun by the vespers in four parts, alla Pa- lestrina; then the Salve Regina was sung
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