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Mark never fails to visit with his heavy displeasure, for when men place the goods of the world before all other considerations, they mistake the objects which have brought them together in social union." "Father, thou wert speaking of a certain Francesco Frontoni?" "Highness, such was his name.
Your ancestors were senators and Doges of Venice, while mine have been, since the fishermen first built their huts in the Lagunes, laborers on the canals, and rowers of gondolas. You are powerful, and rich, and courted; while I am denounced, and in secret, I fear, condemned. In short, you are Don Camillo Monforte, and I am Jacopo Frontoni!"
"Signore, he was a more honest or a more just man did not cast his net in the gulf." "He has fallen a victim to his craft?" "Cospetto di Bacco! none know in what manner he came by his end. Some say St. Mark was impatient to see him in paradise, and some pretend he has fallen by the hand of a common Bravo, named Jacopo Frontoni." "Why should a Bravo take the life of one like this?"
The fortunes of his characters are followed with breathless and accumulating interest to the end. In vain does the dinner-bell sound, or the clock strike the hour of bed-time: the book cannot be laid down till we know whether Elizabeth Temple is to get out of the woods without being burned alive, or solve the mystery that hangs over the life of Jacopo Frontoni.
"Thou art called Jacopo Frontoni?" said the secretary, who acted as the mouth-piece of the Three, on this occasion. "I am." "Thou art the son of a certain Ricardo Frontoni, a man well known as having been concerned in robbing the Republic's customs, and who is thought to have been banished to the distant islands, or to be otherwise punished?" "Signore or otherwise punished."
"I take you for one well known and much valued by many of name and quality, here in Venice, as witness my errand from my own master." "Remove thy mask. Men of fair dealing need not hide the features which nature has given them." "You speak nothing but truths, Signor Frontoni, which is little remarkable considering thy opportunities of looking into the motives of men.
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