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Barrymore laughed; Signore Ripollo passed from injured dignity to indignation, then to passion; and there we sat on early Renaissance chairs, our outward selves icily regular, splendidly null, our features as hard as those of the stone lions, our bodies in much the same attitudes, on our uncomfortable seats.
"Well, Filippo," he said, harshly, "how much have you got?" Phil handed over his earnings. They were up to the required limit, but the padrone looked only half satisfied. "Is that all you have?" he asked, suspiciously. "It is all, signore." "You have not done well this afternoon, then. When I met you at twelve o'clock you had more than a dollar."
"It is then, Signore, that the Venetians have the custom to make three sorts of peculiar presents: Mustard, Fish, and Mandorlato. You must have seen the mustard in the shop windows: it is a thick conserve of fruits, flavored with mustard; and the mandorlato is a candy made of honey, and filled with almonds.
Rafael nodded. "Si, Signore," he said. "There were many at home who held the city safe while he was away," he added, "and there was need enough of brave men then, both at home and abroad." "Venice was a rich and powerful state in those days," said the stranger. "Now she has little left but her beauty, and that will fall to ruin, as the great bell-tower in the Piazza fell not long ago.
"By what authority, reverend priest, dost thou impeach the decision of the judges?" he demanded. "Signore, as I have just said, in virtue of knowledge gained in the exercise of my holy office. He has laid bare his soul to me, as one whose feet were in the grave; and, though offending, like all born of woman, towards his God, he is guiltless as respects the state."
"Just Daniel!" muttered the stranger, when he found that his companion was not disposed to speak; "one would think, illustrious Signore, that your confessor had imposed a penance of silence, by the manner in which you refuse to speak to your servant." "What would'st thou?"
"Weather-glasses, signore pictures and little trinkets, such as the country people like." "Do you sell many weather-glasses in Wales?" said I. "I do not, signore. The Welsh care not for weather-glasses; my principal customers for weather-glasses are the farmers of England." "I am told that you can speak Welsh," said I; "is that true?" "I have picked up a little of it, signore."
'They are merry enough, Signore, says the jailer. 'They are all blood-stained here, he adds, indicating, with his hand, three- fourths of the whole building. Before the hour is out, an old man, eighty years of age, quarrelling over a bargain with a young girl of seventeen, stabs her dead, in the market-place full of bright flowers; and is brought in prisoner, to swell the number.
"But should he urge the state's resistance to his hopes?" returned the Signor Soranzo, in feeble objection to so bold a scheme. "We will excuse it as the act of a former council. These misconceptions are the unavoidable consequences of the caprices of liberty, Signore.
"Am I going to be ridiculous?" she said to herself. "Am I going to be one of the women I despise?" Just then she realized that love may become a tyrant, ministering to the soul with persecutions. Sebastiano took his arm from Lucrezia's waist as Hermione came down to the terrace, and said: "Buona sera, signora. Is the signore coming down yet?" He flung out his arm towards the mountain.
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