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The head of a man lay bleeding upon the marble slab between the columns. It was the head of the Marquis of Cittadella. In the palace of the police, meanwhile, Pietro Falier, the Captain, was busy with his complaints.
"In which case," exclaimed the priest, satirically, "the Signori of the Night would be well able to answer for the safety of the city. Is it not so, Captain?" Falier stammered an excuse. "We have not your eyes, Excellency; we cannot work miracles but at least we can try to protect you from the hand of the assassin. Name this woman to me, and she shall not live when midnight strikes."
§ XIV. The Italian bases are the following; all, except 7 and 10, being Venetian: 1 and 2, upper colonnade, St. Mark's; 3, Ca' Falier; 4, lower colonnade, and 5, transept, St. Mark's; 6, from the Church of St. John and Paul; 7, from the tomb near St.
But he gave no other sign either of surprise or of alarm. "They have sworn it you know their names, Captain?" "The police do not concern themselves with names, Excellency." "Which means that you do not know their names, Captain?" Pietro Falier sighed. This friar never failed to humble him, he thought.
I began with Marin Falier, but history would not permit the doge to languish in these dungeons for a moment. He was imprisoned in the apartments of state, and during one night only. His fellow-conspirators were hanged nearly as fast as taken. Failing so signally with Falier, I tried several other political prisoners of sad and famous memory with scarcely better effect.
If they were at all in their lives like those who have come after them, the sun baked their bald brows in Summer, and their naked feet poor feet! clapping round in wooden-soled sandals over the frozen stones of Venice were swollen and gnawed with chilblains in winter; and no doubt some fat friar of their number, looking all the droller in his bare feet for the spectacles on his nose, came down Calle Falier then, as now, to collect the charity of bread and fuel, far oftener than the dwellers in that aristocratic precinct wished to see him.
Two of the most important pieces of evidence on this point are, a mosaic in the south transept, and another over the northern door of the facade; the first representing the interior, the second the exterior, of the ancient church. SECTION VII. It has just been stated that the existing building was consecrated by the Doge Vital Falier.
We did not mean to keep house as we had in Casa Falier, and perhaps a sketch of our easier menage may not be out of place. Breakfast was prepared in the house, for in that blessed climate all you care for in the morning is a cup of coffee, with a little bread and butter, a musk-melon, and some clusters of white grapes, more or less.
"After the repairs undertaken by the Doge Orseolo, the place in which the body of the holy Evangelist rested had been altogether forgotten, so that the Doge Vital Falier was entirely ignorant of the place of the venerable deposit.
It was not at the Palazzo Falier that Mr. Howells enjoyed the ministrations of that most entertaining hand-maiden Giovanna; but it was from here that he heard that quarrel between two gondoliers which he describes so vividly and which stands for every quarrel of every gondolier for all time.
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