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Silvestro grew hot desperate. Why, after all, would one kill a Jew? Something must be urged, something solid. "There was Annina, you know," said Silvestro, at his wit's end. "Annina that girl you were with? What of her?" Castracane licked his lips. "Well, this Jew, you must understand, was a limber young fellow " "Young!" shouted the other. "You told me he had a great grey beard like a goat."
There was Annina Giannini; she had five thousand lire, and more to come, and now she is married to a doctor in Lucca. I gave her up for you, and you are dust of the streets." Gemma flinched then as though he had struck her. The insult was flagrant, and it was time to make an end.
A touch aroused him, and a sign gave him to understand that the imaginary Roderigo stood before him. "A thousand pardons, Signore," said the gaping mariner; "is the freight come?" "In part only. I have brought thee a certain Annina Torti, the daughter of old Tommaso Torti, a wine-seller of the Lido." "Santa Madre! does the Senate think it necessary to send one like her from the city in secret?"
Annina hesitated; long practised in the small, but secret exceedingly hazardous commerce which her father, notwithstanding the vigilance and severity of the Venetian police, had thus far successfully driven, she neither liked to risk an exposure of her views to an utter stranger, nor to abandon a bargain that promised to be lucrative.
"For a noble lady a young, a virtuous, and a beautiful wife a daughter of the Tiepolo of the Tiepolo, Annina!" "Why should a lady of the Tiepolo employ a girl of the public prisons!" "Why! because there has been injustice by those up above.
No sooner had she entered the little closet than she found herself alone, with one of her own sex. "Annina!" burst from the lips of the unpractised prison-girl, under the impulse of surprise. "Gelsomina! The simple, quiet, whispering, modest Gelsomina!" returned the other. The words of Annina admitted but of one construction.
"The Neapolitan is a powerful noble, Annina, able and willing to keep his servitors in respect." "He will have need of all his interest but why hast thou come at this unseasonable hour? Thy visits are never too welcome, Gino, and when I have other affairs they are disagreeable."
Trust me, she is employed in duties that are unbecoming her sex, and unworthy of thy confidence." "Noble dames, I will not say anything to do displeasure to your high rank and present distress, but you should not urge me to think thus of my mother's niece. You have been unhappy, and you may have cause to dislike the Republic, and you are safe here but I do not desire to hear Annina censured."
He knew how unceasingly the eyes of the Councils, through their agents, were on the movements of those in whom they took an interest, and he was far from feeling all the advantage circumstances had seemingly thrown in his way. Annina was certainly in his power, and it was not possible that she had yet communicated the intelligence, derived from Gelsomina, to any of her employers.
Would her Majesty see her? Ah, Heaven! but her Majesty would! In came, staring and breathing hard, a brown-eyed girl with a shawl over her head, below it a blue stuff gown, below all a pair of sturdy bare legs. "Corpaccio! that's a lady; that's never my 'Polita," she stammered when she saw the white silk wonder of the room, the jewels in her neck, the chains of gold, the bosom. "Oh, Annina!
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