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And the Borodinis turned out in great force, and so did all the other 'inis, and 'olas, and 'ninos dozens of them and in came Loretta, so beautiful that everybody held his breath; and we all gathered about the altar, and good Father Garola stepped down and took their hands; and two candles were lighted and a little bell rang; and then somebody signed a book somebody with the bearing of a prince Borodini, I think and then Luigi, his rich, sunburned face and throat in contrast with his white shirt, moved up and affixed his name to the register; and then a door opened on the side and they all went out into the sunlight.
What the end might be neither the Giudecca nor San Giuseppe could decide. The Borodinis were proud; Vittorio's father was one of the gondoliers belonging to the palace and always rowed the good Queen Margherita when she came incognito to Venice, a post which greatly enhanced his social station. Vittorio was the only son, and already a member of the traghetto, young as he was.
Being aristocrats, the Zanalettos and Borodinis naturally fraternize, and as they live in the same quarter away up on the Giudecca two miles from my canal the fathers of Vittorio and Luigi have become intimate friends. Anything, therefore, touching the welfare of any one of the descendants of so honorable a guild is more or less vital to the members of both families.
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