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"Should you recognize, were you to see them again, any of the assailants?" "I should not," Francis said. "They were all masked." "You say you struck down the one who appeared to be their leader with an oar, as he was about to leap into your boat. How was it the oar was in your hand instead of that of your gondolier?" "I was myself rowing," Francis said.
"One must speak to those at hand, in order to be quickest heard," rejoined the gondolier, casting a glance that was partly humorous, and not without superstition, upwards at the image which crowned the granite column against whose pedestal he still leaned.
Giovanni took leave of Contarini with much ceremony, a little too much, Jacopo thought. "To the Grand Canal," said Giovanni as the gondolier helped him to get in, and he backed under the 'felse. "Try and find the Governor of Murano, and if you see him, take me alongside his gondola."
Miss Tita protested, in a confusion of exclamations and murmurs; but I lost no time in saying that if she would do me the honor to accept the hospitality of my boat I would engage that she should not be bored. Or if she did not want so much of my company the boat itself, with the gondolier, was at her service; he was a capital oar and she might have every confidence.
He doesn't mean to stir till he is obliged to do so." The handsome gondolier had already couched, to enjoy a bask in the sun, which was blazing fiercely down on his brown face and magnificent black hair. "There is the most perfect Titian," she persisted. "No use. I should not appreciate it," he replied. "I have been through a gallery with you before. It's a delusion and a snare.
Miss Ada herself wore a Puritan cap and kerchief which distinguished her as Priscilla, the Puritan maiden; Uncle Dick looked stunning, his nieces agreed, as a Venetian gondolier; Mary was perfectly happy with a long trained skirt, short waist and powdered hair, her crowning glory being a pin which her aunt had lent her; it was set with rhinestones, which in her innocence she mistook for real diamonds, but she was so delighted with the shining brilliants that Miss Ada did not have the heart to undeceive her.
"Things of this kind often happen at sea." "Really!" exclaimed the gondolier, who was only a boatman and regarded real sailors with a sort of professional reverence. "Yes," answered Pasquale. "Especially on Sundays. You must know that when the priests are all saying mass, and the people are all praying, the devils cannot bear it, and are driven out to sea for the day.
The paintings being contemporary, these records are of great value in ascertaining costumes, architecture, and so forth. I speak elsewhere of the Palazzo Giovanelli as being an excellent destination to give one's gondolier when in doubt.
"Will the most Reverend Mother bless the boat of a gondolier of the people; and his sister, who hath been ill and craveth the morning air?" Piero, who had discarded every emblem of his office, and wore only the simple dress of the Nicolotti, put the question easily, without fear of recognition. "And there is no great trouble in the city which calleth these illustrious ladies so early from Murano?"
"They came over them, then, the curious ones," the younger man of the two who lounged on cushions underneath the felza remarked, as if to prolong the theme. "To the gates of Paradise," he continued, while his companion motioned to the gondolier. "And they broke them open, but they could never take the swag after all." He laughed at her puzzled look.
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