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Polixena" he read; but hardly had he seized the sense of the words when a hand fell on his shoulder, and a stern-looking man in a cocked hat, and bearing a kind of rod or mace, pronounced a few words in Venetian.
Tillotson's sermons in the best parlour at Salem; then he swung round on the girl and caught both her hands in his. "Yes, there is," he cried, "if you are willing. Polixena, let the priest come!" She shrank back from him, white and radiant. "Oh, hush, be silent!" she said. "I am no noble Marquess, and have no great estates," he cried.
The latter volleyed back in the same jargon, and as she did so, Tony's astonished eye detected in her the doubleted page who had handed him the letter in Saint Mark's. "What!" he cried, "the lad was this girl in disguise?" Polixena broke off with an irrepressible smile; but her face clouded instantly and she returned to the charge.
"Sir," said Tony, "if that is the extent of my offence, it lies with the young lady to set me free, since by her own avowal " but here he stopped short, for, to his surprise, Polixena shot a terrified glance at him. "Sir," interposed the Count, "we are not accustomed in Venice to take shelter behind a lady's reputation." "No more are we in Salem," retorted Tony in a white heat.
He glanced about the apartment and doffed his hat with mock ceremony to Polixena, who faced him like a princess.
"My dear sir," said the Count, at length turning to Tony with a perturbed countenance, "it is as I feared, and you are fallen into a great misfortune." "A great misfortune! A great trap, I call it!" shouted Tony, whose blood, by this time, was boiling; but as he uttered the word the beautiful Polixena cast such a stricken look on him that he blushed up to the forehead.
"Sir," said Tony, "if that is the extent of my offence, it lies with the young lady to set me free, since by her own avowal " but here he stopped short, for, to his surprise, Polixena shot a terrified glance at him. "Sir," interposed the Count, "we are not accustomed in Venice to take shelter behind a lady's reputation." "No more are we in Salem," retorted Tony in a white heat.
The Senator, at this, would have burst forth again; but the Count, stepping between, answered quickly: "His grievance against you is that you have been detected in secret correspondence with his daughter, the most noble Polixena Cador, the betrothed bride of this gentleman, the most illustrious Marquess Zanipolo " and he waved a deferential hand at the frowning hidalgo of the cape and ruff.
"The English Ambassador," Polixena added simply, "is a very handsome man." "I wish, madam, I were a better proxy!" She echoed his laugh, and then clapped her hands together with a look of anguish. "Fool that I am! How can I jest at such a moment? I am in dreadful trouble, and now perhaps I have brought trouble on you also Oh, my father! I hear my father coming!"
Not to put too fine a point on it, it is necessary that you should marry her within the hour." Tony, at this, for all his spirit, felt the blood run thin in his veins. He looked in silence at the threatening visages between himself and the door, stole a side-glance at the high barred windows of the apartment, and then turned to Polixena, who had fallen sobbing at her father's feet.
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