CHAPTER XXI. VENICE.

THE YEARS EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-NINE AND EIGHTEEN-EIGHTY 189

_Whistler's Arrival in Venice--First Impressions-- Disappointments and Difficulties--His Friends in Venice and their Memories of him--Duveneck and his "Boys"--Whistler's Hard Work--His Lodgings and Restaurants--The Cafés--Stories told of him--Reminiscences of Mr. Harper Pennington and Mr. Ralph Curtis_