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My part was to criticise them in hammer verses a kind of doggerel then much in fashion, and Zorzi took care to distribute my lucubrations far and wide. These manoeuvres made me a powerful enemy in the person of M. Condulmer, who liked me none the better for having all the appearance of being in high favour with Madame Zorzi, to whom before my appearance he had paid diligent court.
The man looked away shamefacedly, for he knew that even if he had not meant to injure Zorzi for life, he had meant to hurt him if he could. As for Giovanni, he was puzzled by all that had happened so unexpectedly, for he was a dull man, though very keen for gain, and he did not understand human nature.
But Marietta did not mean to acknowledge that she had done anything but what was perfectly right and natural under the circumstances; to admit that would have been to confess that she had not come merely out of pity and human kindness. "It is absurd," she said with a little indignation. "I shall tell my brother myself that Zorzi was hurt, and that I helped you to dress his wound.
Zorzi looked at her in dumb surprise, for she could not have said anything which he had expected less. "Listen to me," she continued. "You cannot stay here or rather, you shall not, for I will not let you. No, you need not smile and shake your head, for I will find some means of making you go." "You will find that hard, dear love, for that is the only thing I will not do for you." "Is it?
"I must tell you something, Zorzi," she was saying, as she looked up into the face she loved. "My father told me last night what he had done yesterday. He saw Messer Zuan Venier " Zorzi showed his surprise. "Pasquale told my father that he had been here to see you.
Nevertheless, I shall certainly tell him the whole story." "That is your affair. I have nothing to say about it. Here is the money, for which I will take the beaker I saw you finishing when I came in. Is it enough? Is it a fair price?" "It is a very good price," Zorzi answered. "But there may be a piece among those in the oven which you will like better.
I have an idea of my own, which I should like to try." "Then we must empty the crucible. There is no other way. The glass will keep its colour, whatever shape we give it. Is there much of it?" "There may be twenty or thirty pounds' weight," answered Zorzi. "No one can tell." Nell listened in mute surprise.
Make something, Zorzi, while I write down the result of the experiment." He took big pen and the sheet of rough paper on which he had already noted the proportions of the materials, and he began to write, sitting at the large table before the open window. Zorzi took the long iron blow-pipe, cleaned it with a cloth and pushed the end through the orifice from which he had taken the specimen.
It would he easy for him to send Zorzi on an errand of importance, as soon as he should be so far recovered as to walk a little. The great glass-houses had dealings with the banks in Venice and with merchants of all countries, and Beroviero had more than once sent Zorzi to Venice on business of moment.
"I mean that you did not look there when you searched for it alone, immediately after Zorzi was arrested." Giovanni was pale now, but he raised both hands and turned up his eyes as if calling upon heaven to witness his innocence. "I swear to you," he began, "on the body of the blessed Saint Donatus " Beroviero interrupted him. "I did not ask you to swear by anything," he said. "I know the truth.
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