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Mark hath been too much vaunted to endanger its reputation by a hasty decree, in a question which so closely touches the interest of a powerful noble of Italy. Don Camillo Monforte hath a name of distinction, and counteth too many of note among his kindred, to be dealt with as we might dispose of a gondolier, or the messenger of some foreign state."
As I was leaving His Holiness's palace, I was accosted by an old abbe, who asked me respectfully if I were not the M. Casanova who had escaped from The Leads. "Yes," said I, "I am the man." "Heaven be praised, worthy sir, that I see you again in such good estate!" "But whom have I the honour of addressing?" "Don't you recollect me? I am Momolo, formerly gondolier at Venice."
But the old Venetian loved a good table; so every morning he had his gondolier come to his bedside and tell him what fish was in the market, how it looked, how much it cost; and, giving himself up to his culinary enthusiasm with the appreciative appetite of a connoisseur, he established the relative merit of the different fish and discussed their flavor, till one day, while he was engaged in his favorite morning occupation, the end of things came for him, and Almore Cesare Tiepolo turned his face toward the wall, like the prophet of old, and, surrendering himself to acts of fervid contrition with the aid of his confessor, he obtained a last parting benediction and died.
The gondolier carried the card again to the door, where Ferris's servant let down a basket by a string and fished it up. "If Don Ippolito shouldn't be in," said Mrs. Vervain, as the boat moved on again, "I don't know what I shall do with this money. It will be awkward beyond anything."
Want of love, or want of money, lies at the bottom of all our griefs. The stranger came forward, and leaving the joyous throng, turned down the Piazzetta, and approached the quay of the Lagune. A gondolier saluted him, and he entered his boat. 'Whither, signor? said the gondolier. 'To the Grand Canal, he replied. Over the moonlit wave the gondola swiftly skimmed!
He had determined on immediate pursuit, however, and before he quitted the gondola, he once more turned to his confidential gondolier to give the necessary instructions. "Thou knowest, Gino," he said, "that there is one born a vassal on my estates, here in the port, with a felucca from the Sorrentine shore?" "I know the man better than I know my own faults Signore, or even my own virtues."
Even now I am not certain that Miss Ross was not a party to the plot by which we first found ourselves alone upon the Plaza; and a moment later saw our guard and Miss Jenrys afloat upon the Grand Basin, luxuriously established, because of the invalid, of course, in a canopied gondola, and looking as innocent as if they did not perfectly well know that their picturesque gondolier could not understand the least word of English.
"To-morrow," he said, "I will paint that face!" "By our Lady of Murano!" the gondolier cried suddenly. "He spoke to thee like a queen and it was Paolo Cagliari! What did he want with thee?" "Not me, Piero; it was the child. He wished to give him flowers. I knew he must be great to care thus for our 'bimbo. It was really he the Veronese?" "The child! Santa Maria!
The gondolier whom I had sent to her apartment brought me for answer that she had set off, the evening before, for Florence. If I had not felt all the love I had for her person when this was in my possession, I felt it in the most cruel manner on losing her.
As she spoke she put out her head and gave a whispered order to the gondolier; and at the word the boat swung round and headed for the city. In the violent reaction which this strange encounter produced, Odo was for the moment incapable of taking any clear note of his surroundings.
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