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                                                                      	spectator;  for it is thrown off the middle of the body -
                                                                      in order to show to the spectator its fine cutting:  Now
                                                                      the Mocenigo hand - quiet and even stiff in its articu-
                                                                      lations has its veins finely drawn ;  with the noble per-
                                                                      ception that the Veined hand ex[d]presses alike dignity and
                                                                      age and birth:  (Compare Cleopatra - My bluest veins to
                                                                      k[m]iss)  One at once feels it the hand of an old man of
                                                                      noble birth;  lordly and delicate - the Vendranice
                                                                      hand is far morelaboriously cut - but its blunt and
                                                                      clumsy contour at once makes us feel that all the care
                                                                      has been thrown away:  and well it may be, for it has
                                                                      been entirely bestowed in cutting wrinkles about the
                                                                      joints.
                                                                      Such as the hand is, I looked for its  fellow:  At first
                                                                      I thought it had been broken off, but on sweeping the dust 
                                                                      off, I saw the wretched effigy had only one hand
                                                                      and was a mere block on the other side;  The face, heavy
                                                                      and disagreeable at any rate - has a most grotesque effect
                                                                      One side of the forehead is wrinkled elaborately, the
                                                                      other left smooth - one side only of the Doges Cap is
                                                                      chased, one cheek only is smoothed, and the other only
                                                                      blocked out, and distorted besides;  finally the Ermine
                                                                      cape, which is now elaborately imitated to its
                                                                      utmost lock of hair, and of sub or ground hair on the

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