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But the only successful changes have been mediæval; and their nature will be at once understood by a glance at the varieties given on the opposite page. It will be well first to give the buildings in which they occur, in order. Santa Fosca, Torcello. | 14. Ca' Giustiniani, Venice. 2. North transept, St. Mark's, | 15. Byzantine fragment, Venice. Venice. | 16. St. Mark's, upper Colonnade. 3.
The low, intense, interrupted words were a brave surrender. "Ay, my father, it is like Marco to hear thee speak!" "Then let him come and make thee Lady of the Giustiniani, like a true knight!" exclaimed the old man fiercely. "Ay, father, so would he; but I have told him that thou and I are not less proud than those of his own house, and without their consent it may not be."
"Messer Gastaldo," said the secretary suavely, "it hath pleased those who have ever the welfare of Venice at heart to provide for the most noble Lady of the Giustiniani an escort which better fitteth her rank than the size of thy barchetta permitteth, and a dwelling more honorable than the 'Osteria del Buon Pesce, where, in company of the Lady Beata Tagliapietra, she hath passed the night."
The supplicant slowly rose, throwing back her veil, and revealing a face that was spirit-like in its pallor and beauty, with deep eyes, unfathomably sad. Her maidens gathered close about her, as if to support her, for she trembled as she stood. A low murmur arose. "The Lady of the Giustiniani!"
The filing of the decree of the Senate had acted like a charm upon our Capo of the Ten: the importance thus accorded to the Ca' Giustiniani soothed every vestige of wounded pride, while the beauty and grace of his prospective daughter-in-law had filled him with a triumph which only the frigid stateliness of his habitual demeanor enabled him to conceal, so great was the revulsion from his former state of feeling.
Heh, Marietta! What would you say if the gentleman were to give you a pair of ear-rings, now; real gold ear-rings I mean? Thread for ear-rings, Sir, in the ears of a Giustiniani! It is absurd, preposterous, monstrous; and a right-thinking gentleman like you, Sir, will never deny that."
"I do not like that woman Castaldi," Francis said one evening as, after leaving the palazzo, Giuseppi rowed them towards the Palazzo Giustiniani, where Matteo was to be landed. "Gouvernantes are not popular, as a class, with young men," Matteo laughed. "But seriously, Matteo, I don't like her; and I am quite sure that, for some reason or other, she does not like me.
Leave them their heaven, who have no earthly paradise!" The lady's strength seemed failing, for the last words had come more painfully, though with a ring of passionate indignation. Again Marcantonio Giustiniani broke from his detaining colleagues in an attempt to reach his wife; and a second time the hands of the Councillors waved him back.
She had freely confessed as much even under the very eyes of so lordly a suitor as Anselmo Giustiniani; and albeit Ann might be sure of his constancy, even in despite of Ursula, yet would he not deny that he could forgive Ursula much in that she had loved much, as the Scripture saith.
Possibly she reflected, with a shudder, as she laid the relic on the altar of the oratory of the palazzo Giustiniani, that the remembrance of the constant dangers of Santa Beata had incited the Lady Marina thus to peril her life.
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