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Updated: May 1, 2025
As I have sworn a noble's oath of allegiance to Venice, so faithfully have I vowed to wed none other than Marina Magagnati! And it is my father who hath taught me to hold sacred the faith of a Venetian and a Giustinian. But my lady is not called of noble blood."
But the remembrance of his vow of allegiance, just rendered before the Senate, returned to him rather as the public investiture of his rights as a man than as a claim of self-surrender; and he vowed to himself to use that right, in all possible conflict between himself and the Republic, in questions personal and dear; for the pleasant freedom of his life thus far had left him less in awe of the senatorial majesty than Giustinian Giustiniani would have deemed possible.
But how could he hope to win his father's consent to any unpatrician alliance! He passed the elder Giustinian hastily and paused beyond the next group of armor battered breastplates, casques, and shields of the twelfth century but his thoughts were elsewhere.
"Yet this one hath a fragrance like none other that hath ever blossomed on the festa of San Marco my blessed patron! for I culled it from the garland which my mother bade her maidens for a token make about the table where thy portrait is displayed." He raised the rosebud to his lips before he placed it in her hand. "And the Senator Giustinian Giustiniani?"
It was a Giustinian, "Gonfalonière," standard bearer, who had brought the glorious news on his triumphant galley, the solemn Lion of San Marco waving his banner above the drooping crescent of the Turk from every green wreathed mast.
It was while he was conducting this campaign that the Doge Marcantonio Giustinian died, and Morosoni being elected in his place was crowned on his battleship at Porto Porro in Cephalonia. The carousals of the army and navy lasted for three days, at the new Doge's cost, the resources of the fleet having no difficulty in running to every kind of pageantry and pyrotechny.
It was a brief offer on the part of Girolamo Magagnati to equip and maintain, at his expense, in the event of war with the Holy See, a war-galley of the largest size, as a gift to the Republic in the name of his little grandson, the infant Giustinian.
Then, slowly out of the darkness rose the noble face of Lorenzo the Giustinian, full of quiet and strength her mother's face, loving, comforting both asking her best of her; and the Question grew in her soul. "Perhaps Carlotta's right was greater could it be greater than her husband's?"
"For the honor of the Servi, let the matter be dispatched, and let proof be brought," the Superior demanded, surprised and displeased at any softness in Fra Paolo, whose dominant note was justice, rather than mercy. "We will grant him the favor of a farewell collation ere he taketh leave of his entertainers," said the Giustinian. "Let the refection be brought."
Tell me, Giustinian, how doth the Consultore appear to thee?" "To me and to all men like one who betrays no secret and speaks no idle word." "Once," pursued the lady meditatively, "I had sight of him, going with Marco to the convent to see our Madonna of the Veronese, and Fra Paolo ministered in the chapel of the Consolation; very quiet and simple he seemed, like the other frati.
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