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Annina was hesitating in what manner she should make him change his purpose, when the gondola touched the felucca's side. "We will go up and speak to the padrone," whispered Jacopo. "It is of no avail; he is without liquors." "Trust him not; I know the man and his pretences," "Thou forgettest my cousin." "She is an innocent and unsuspecting child."
"Santa Maria! we are both here with the same end!" "Annina! I know not what thou would'st say! This is surely the palace of Don Camillo Monforte! a noble Neapolitan, who urges claims to the honors of the Senate?" "The gayest, the handsomest, the richest, and the most inconstant cavalier in Venice! Hadst thou been here a thousand times thou could'st not be better informed!"
"Since Gino has entered frankly into the matter," resumed the quick-witted Calabrian, cheerfully, and with an air of sudden confidence to the expectant Annina, "I begin to see more probability of our understanding each other's meaning. Deign, bella donna, to go into my poor cabin, where we will speak more at our ease, and something more to our mutual profit and mutual security."
Bent on a wild and undigested scheme of asserting their wrongs, the fishermen again plied their oars, and the whole fleet swept away, as if it was composed of a single mass. The meeting, though so short, was accompanied by cries, menaces, and all those accustomed signs of rage which mark a popular tumult among those excitable people, and it had produced a sensible effect on the nerves of Annina.
"Well, the matter is likely to come to a conclusion this night; my master is about to do, as I fear, a very foolish thing." "He will be married!" "Or worse! I am sent in all haste and secresy in search of a priest." Annina manifested strong interest in the fiction of the gondolier.
Thou knowest, Annina, that the young patricians have their frolics, and they swear us gondoliers to keep secret till all danger of detection is over; were any impertinent eyes following me, I might be questioned as to the manner of having passed the earlier hours." "Methinks it would be better to have given thee gold, and to have sent thee at once to thy home."
Annina!" until the call brought another woman on to the balcony immediately below; whereupon the former let down a cord, and her friend, catching the end of it, made it fast to a basket which contained food covered with a cloth. The basket was drawn up, the women gossiped and laughed for a while in pleasant voices, then they disappeared. All around, the familiar Neapolitan clamour was beginning.
"I scarce know any in Venice, Annina; for the long illness of my mother, and this unhappy office of my father, keep me within when others are on the canals." "True. Thou art not well placed to make acquaintances. But Luigi is second to no gondolier in skill or reputation, and he is much the merriest rogue of them all, that put foot on the Lido." "He was foremost, then, in the grand race?"
Addio, good Gessina; I hope thy father will permit thee to come and visit, at last, those who so much love thee." "Addio, Annina; thou knowest I would come gladly, but that I scarce quit the side of my poor mother." The wily daughter of the wine-seller gave her guileless and unsuspecting friend a kiss, and then she was let out and departed.
The stranger had arisen while speaking, and as he ended, he laid a hand on the shoulder of his visitor, who found herself confronted with Don Camillo Monforte. Annina was too much practised in deception to indulge in any of the ordinary female symptoms, either of real or of affected alarm. Commanding her features, though in truth her limbs shook, she said with assumed pleasantry
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