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Updated: June 3, 2025
"None, save that if I return not and not otherwise thou shalt seek with my token the Master Girolamo Magagnati; thou shalt tell him of this my confidence, holding nothing back; and thou shalt pray him, of his honor, to discharge the debt which may be found lacking in the treasury of the Nicolotti, since the moneys have been taken for the need of the lady on her journey, the which, if I return, I have means, and more, to repay."
Because I am of the people, and because the others your father and mother, who are of the nobles, and my father, who is of the people may not consent, we will make no vows until this difficulty is conquered." "They shall not keep us from it." She shook her head sadly, but came no nearer. "Will Giustinian Giustiniani ask a daughter of the people? But Girolamo Magagnati is not less proud."
Another lamp, fixed against a plate of burnished brass, cast a reflection that was almost brilliant upon the glory of this chamber a high, central cabinet of the same dark, carved framework, with a back of those wonderful mirror plates so recently brought to perfection by another stabilimento of which the good Girolamo was almost jealous, although against this luminous background the exquisite fabrications of the house of Magagnati reflected their wonderful shapes and colors in increased beauty.
I would bring her to thee to win thee, but she will not come. It is thou, she saith, who must send her sign of favor." "I fear me it must be long in going, my Marco; yet I love thee well. How should I send my favor to a daughter of the people!" "Those are the words of Marina Magagnati." "She is wise then; she will help thee to forget."
And those panes of brilliant, crystal clarity which he had dreamed of adding to the honors of the Stabilimento Magagnati so strong that a single sheet might be framed in the great spaces of the windows of the palaces and show neither curve nor flaw so pure that their only trace of color should come from a chance reflection which would but lend added charm these might not be the discovery of his later days, though the time was near in which this gift must come to Venice.
"It is nothing to me," she answered shortly. "It is a pretty festa, and Messer Magagnati should take thee. By our Lady of Castello, there are others who will go!" "It would be better for the bambino," he persisted sullenly, as she did not answer him. His voice was not the pleasanter now that its positive tone was changed to a coaxing one. "One is enough, Piero," she said.
"She will not come to bring me sorrow; and she hath said that my duty being to Venice, she can wed me only with the consent of our house. And Messer Magagnati " "There is a father, then, who would treat with thee?" "Mother use not that tone; thou dost not understand! Ask the Veronese.
Let it not be said in scorn that Girolamo Magagnati hath bought the nobility with which his birth hath failed to endow him!" "Is it better, Messer Magagnati, that some should now say 'it is for arrogance that this noble son of the people refuses a seat among the nobles of Venice'?" the Doge questioned coldly.
The ceremony of presentation to the Serenissimo was quickly over, and the bride and her maidens, with Girolamo Magagnati, in sign of the Prince's favor, followed the Doge and suite into the golden looms and shifting twilights of this place of symbolism and wonder, where the vast throng waited in a solemn hush.
He had not dreamed that he could ever say, while strength yet remained to think and plan, "The house of Magagnati has touched its height, and others may come forward to do the rest for Venice." And the secret lay so near scarcely eluding him!
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