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Uncle Tom Curtis arrived in New York toward the end of the children's visit, good-byes were said to Miss Cartright and to Uncle Bob, and within the space of a day Jean and Giusippe were amid new surroundings.
After that comes the smoothing process done with a finer sort of emery and water. Last of all the sheet is bedded, as we call it, and each side is polished with rouge, or red oxide, between moving pads of felt." "Goodness!" ejaculated Jean. "Do you mean to say they have to go through all that with every sheet of plate glass?" "Every sheet of polished plate," corrected Giusippe.
I hope before we leave for home we shall have a peep at some if not all of these." "Isn't much beautiful French glass now made at Nancy, Mr. Cabot?" Giusippe inquired. "Yes, some of the finest comes from there." "But didn't any other people beside the Venetians and the French make glass, Uncle Bob?" asked Jean, much interested. "Oh, yes.
Millions of pieces have been used to make the pictures, and if you will notice carefully you will see that they have the rough surface which catches the light as do all the early Venetian mosaics." Giusippe nodded. "There must also be some fine old glass windows in London," he speculated. "Aren't there, Mr. Cabot?" "Yes, some varieties that you did not have in Venice, too," declared Uncle Bob.
And Giusippe, answering in voluble English mixed with Italian, extolled not only the fairness but the goodness of his goddess. Even Hannah agreed that the American girl was charming, but regretted that she had not come from Boston instead of New York. Uncle Bob alone was silent.
How ever did they get the color? It is like a sunset." "The Tiffanys, like Blaschka the flower modeler, are not telling the world how they get their results. Rest assured, however, many and many hours must have been spent in experiments before such artistic products could be obtained." "Think of the struggles with color and with firing," Giusippe murmured.
Sightseers go out to where the water is clear and by looking down through the transparent bottom of the boat they can see, as they go along, the wonderful plant and animal life of the ocean. Such reptiles, such fish, such seaweeds as there are! I have heard that it is as interesting as moving pictures, and quite as thrilling, too." "I'd like to do it," said Giusippe.
With so many interesting stories, and so many things to see, you may be sure that neither Jean nor Giusippe found sightseeing dull. And the next day Uncle Bob was as good as his word, and took the young people to the British Museum, where he showed them some of the old Egyptian and Græco-Syrian glass.
I need you here at home and I need you at the office." Giusippe smiled. "I'm glad if I can be of help to you, sir." "You are of help; you are more than that you are See here, what do you say to throwing up your position at the works and coming into my private office as my well, as my general utility man?
It presented endless opportunity the chance to learn, to possess, to win out. "If you have brains and use them, if you are not afraid of hard work, there is no limit to what a man may do and become over here," he told Giusippe. "That is why I like it, and why I never shall go back to Italy. Just you jump in, youngster, and don't you worry but you'll bring up somewhere in the end."
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