1 I should like to see Venice again,' she said, 'and to bathe from one of the shingle islands across the lagoon.
2 It was a lovely summer afternoon, the shallow lagoon rippled, the full sunshine made Venice, turning its back to them across the water, look dim.
3 The Villa Esmeralda was quite a long way out, on the edge of the lagoon looking towards Chioggia.
4 It was not a very old house, and pleasant, with the terraces looking seawards, and below, quite a big garden with dark trees, walled in from the lagoon.
5 He thought this trip to some lonely bank across the lagoon probably meant business: business being l'amore, love.
6 Connie would come home from the blazing light of the lagoon in a kind of stupor, to find letters from home.
7 She lived in the stupor of the light of the lagoon, the lapping saltiness of the water, the space, the emptiness, the nothingness: but health, health, complete stupor of health.
8 Now he made a third in the gondola, and he bathed with them across the lagoon, and was their escort: a quiet, almost taciturn young man, very advanced in his art.