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I will not yield a hair's breadth? Let Genoa's towers shake their heads, and the hoarse sea bellow No to it. I value not the rebellious multitude! LOMELLINO. The people are indeed the fuel; but the nobility fan the flame. The whole republic is in a ferment, people and patricians. GIANETTINO. Then will I stand upon the mount like Nero, and regale myself with looking upon the paltry flames.
If any one inquire of thee about them, say thou hast heard it rumored that thy master intends to cruise against the Turks. Dost thou understand me? MOOR. Yes, yes the beards of the Mussulmen at the masthead, but the devil for a steersman. FIESCO. Gently one more precaution. Gianettino has new reasons to hate me and lay snares against my life.
On the other hand 'twould be amusing to behold the illustrious Dorias in this evening's massacre the victims of a rascally Moor. No. This doubtful question a Christian might perhaps resolve, but 'tis too deep a riddle for my Moorish brains. I'll go propose it to some learned man. An apartment in the house of the COUNTESS IMPERIALI. JULIA in dishabille. GIANETTINO enters, agitated.
You must have been displeased at my long absence. Pardon me. As you wish. And you? BOURGOGNINO. Quite prepared. And you? SACCO. All's right. FIESCO. And Calcagno? BOURGOGNINO. Is not yet arrived. Make fast the gates! Long enough have we borne the insolence of Gianettino Doria, and the usurpation of Andreas. My friends, if we would deliver Genoa, no time is to be lost.
Her father is here, and one of those three masks. GIANETTINO. Excellent! Bring me instantly to her. LOMELLINO. But you will seek in her a mistress, and find a prude. GIANETTINO. Force is the best rhetoric. Lead me to her. Would I could see that republican dog that durst stand in the way of the bear Doria. FIESCO and the former. FIESCO. I have handed her to her carriage.
A hot engagement at the St. Thomas' Gate. Who was it that commanded the alarm to be beat? LOMELLINO. A cannon was fired on board one of the galleys. GIANETTINO. The slaves perhaps have risen in mutiny. LOMELLINO. Hark! A shot! GIANETTINO. The gate is open. The guards are in confusion. Light us to the harbor. The former; BOURGOGNINO, with some CONSPIRATORS, coming from the gate of St. Thomas.
"Nevertheless, name the price!" "Twenty ducats!" "Twenty ducats!" exclaimed Gianettino, with an expression of the liveliest astonishment. "You jest, my friend! How can such a splendid animal be possibly sold for twenty ducats?" "Here! hear!" shouted the crowd. "He finds the price too low!" "He is a real gentleman!" "He will not buy gudgeons like the Spaniard!"
ANDREAS. Hear first what thou hast done; then answer me. Thou hast pulled down an edifice which I have labored for fifty years to raise that which should have been thy uncle's mausoleum, his only pyramid the affections of his countrymen. This rashness Andreas pardons thee GIANETTINO. My uncle and my sovereign ANDREAS. Interrupt me not.
I consulted with the ministers of Charles on the strong party which France still has in Genoa, and by which she might a second time seize on it unless they should be rooted out. This worked upon the emperor he approved my projects and thou shalt write what I will dictate to thee. LOMELLINO. I know not yet your purpose. GIANETTINO. Sit down and write LOMELLINO. But what am I to write?
GIANETTINO DORIA, nephew of the former, and pretender to the ducal power, twenty-six years of age, rough and forbidding in his address, deportment, and manners, with a vulgar pride and disgusting features.
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