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"Nay, now them art returned to Venice forget the disturbing ways of Spain," the Lady Laura answered, with an attempt at conciliation. "I am glad that thy mission in that strange land hath come to an end." "Ay, but the ways of Spain do make traitors of us all!" Giustinian exclaimed hotly.
He could not interpose to demean his ancient lineage by consenting to this unpatrician alliance; he would not accept the alternative for his only son the last of the Giustiniani! Nor could he urge a Giustinian to break a vow of honor made before the highest tribunal of the realm.
But the dignified company were pressing the young secretary for his answer, and one of them anxiously repeated the keynote, "An examination which prejudiced the ancient right of Venice?" "Courtesy and wisdom would render any other opinion inadmissible," Marcantonio replied, "in Venice." The elder Giustinian had detected the slight pause which preceded the last two words.
Another calle, the Giustinian, a dull house with a garden and red and white striped posts, and we are at the Iron Bridge and the Campo S. Vitale, a small poor-people's church, with a Venetian-red house against it, and inside, but difficult to see, yet worth seeing, a fine picture by Carpaccio of a saint on horseback.
She was too keenly interested not to put the further question: "Is it safe for Fra Paolo to lead this controversy? Is it pleasing to his order?" Giustinian gave a contemptuous laugh. "Thou mayest well ask! Fra Paolo also would not hear of it at first, foreseeing where it might lead. But from urgency of the Senate he yielded if the consent of the general of the Servi were first won.
Nor was he above using the gentle suasion of his office to obtain sumptuous gifts from the representatives of foreign powers for Giustinian, on his return to Venice, reported to the Doge and Senate that "Cardinal Wolsey is very anxious for the signory to send him a hundred Damascene carpets for which he has asked several times, and expected to receive them by the last galleys.
It was a relief to the stately and grim Giustinian to lose his temper in the sanctity of his home, since that freedom was beneath the dignity of a Venetian ruler in the company of others who were chafing like himself from insults they would have rejoiced to hurl back in the face of the speaker; and he was the less inclined to view favorably the efforts toward conciliation of the embassy to the Holy See, because it would have pleased him to have been named among those six of this Ambassade Extraordinary, on a mission so important, as an honor due to his ancient house.
It was this Giustinian who had been carried in triumph on the shoulders of the people, before the Doge and the Signoria who had been the hero when that solemn Mass, in honor of the victory, had been offered up in the ducal chapel when the Rialto and the Merceria, for the extravagant joy of Venice, were draped in blue and scarlet and gold, bound laurel wreaths and decorated with the art treasures of Titian and Giorgone.
This frate who hath brought the information verily deserveth honor for so great a service!" "And the others?" "Is there more than one treatment for a traitor?" Giustinian exclaimed, with increasing temper. "And for the ambassador it hath already been courteously signified to him that the air of Venice agreeth not well with one of his devotional tendencies."
Pietro, the earliest master of our beautiful art, was thine ancestor. The Giustinian stoops not in taking thee." "He is noble enough to be thy son, my father and chivalrous as thou but we are too noble to let him do aught unbefitting his noble house; for thou knowest the Giustiniani are like princes in Venice, and Marco is their only son.
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