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Updated: May 3, 2025
'A part of the mutineers now concealed themselves in the bushes about San Josef barracks. 'In the meantime the San Josef militia were assembled, to the number of forty. Major Giuseppi, and Captain and Adjutant Rousseau, of the second division of militia forces, took command of them.
At last, however, a light burst suddenly up from the shore. "There is Giuseppi," Francis exclaimed. "We are further out than we thought we were. He must be fully a mile and a half away." The men in the boat were told to row direct for the light, and some of the sweeps were got out and helped the vessel through the water.
"I don't see what you wanted another gondola for, Francis. I do not use mine very much, and you are always welcome to take it when I do not want it." "Yes, father, but you often use it in the evening, and that is just the time when one wants to go out. You very often only take Beppo with you, when you do not go on business, and I often want a boat that I could take with Giuseppi.
We arrived just at the nick of time; another half minute and those young ladies would have been carried off. That was a rare blow you dealt their leader. I fancy he never came up again, and that that is why we got away without being chased." "I am of that opinion myself, Giuseppi." "If that is the case we shall not have heard the last of it, Messer Francisco.
"If your excellency would write in figures, half past ten or eleven, or whatever time we should meet you, just at the base of the column of the palace the corner one on the Piazzetta we should be sure to be there sometime or other during the day, and would look for it." "You can read and write, then?" the passenger asked. "I cannot do that, signor," Giuseppi said, "but I can make out figures.
He had therefore warned Giuseppi to be very careful in his replies. He knew that it was not necessary to say more, for Giuseppi had plenty of shrewdness, and would, he was sure, invent some plausible story without the least difficulty, possessing, as he did, plenty of the easy mendacity so general among the lower classes of the races inhabiting countries bordering on the Mediterranean.
"Giuseppi would give his life for Francisco, and the two have been together every day for the last six or seven years. I don't doubt the faithful fellow is crying with joy now. Francisco is quite right, not to keep him waiting for a minute." "Perhaps I cried for joy, too, Master Matteo," Maria said. "I believe I did see tears in your eyes, Maria; but I put them down to my own account.
We prefer being our own masters; to take a fare or leave it as we please." "Your boat is a very fast one. You went at a tremendous rate when the galley was after us the other night." "The boat is like others," Giuseppi said carelessly; "but most men can row fast when the alternative is ten ducats one way or a prison the other."
But the usual cabin is only half the size of yours, and two have been thrown into one to make it light and airy." "And where do you sleep, Giuseppi?" "I am going to sleep in the passage outside your door, Messer Francisco." "Oh, but I sha'n't like that!" Francis said. "You ought to have a better place than that." Giuseppi laughed.
Giuseppi burst into a torrent of vituperation at the carelessness of the gondoliers who had so nearly run into them, but Francis silenced him at once. "Row, Giuseppi. It was done on purpose. It is the gondola the other spoke to." Their assailant was turning also, and in a few seconds was in pursuit. Francis understood it now.
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