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Considered as the principal representation of the Venetian school of architecture, the Ducal Palace is the Parthenon of Venice, and Gradenigo its Pericles.
I tire of these constant exercises of the spirit." The Hebrew, exulting in his success, now took his leave, with a manner in which habitual cupidity and subdued policy completely mastered every other feeling. He disappeared by the passage through which he had entered. It seemed, by the manner of the Signor Gradenigo, that the receptions for that evening had now ended.
"Signori," he said, fumbling in a bundle of papers, "we must take up the matter of the fisherman but we will first inquire into the circumstance of the signet left the past night in the lion's mouth. Signor Gradenigo, you were charged with the examination." "The duty hath been executed, noble Sirs, and with a success I had not hoped to meet with.
"Are the Dalmatians apprised of this movement?" asked one of the secret tribunal, whose nerves were scarcely equal to the high functions he discharged. "We may have occasion for their volleys, ere this riot is appeased." "Confide in the ordinary authorities for that, Signore," answered the Senator Gradenigo.
"By this I am to understand that I am no longer a ward of the Signor Gradenigo?" "Lady, a ready wit has helped you to the explanation. That illustrious patrician is released from his cherished and well acquitted duties.
"I hope none in thy favor have been indiscreet of speech!" exclaimed the Signor Gradenigo, casting a hasty and suspicious look at his ward. "If any have been so thoughtless, let them abide the punishment of their fault." "I commend thy justice. In this age of novel opinions, innovations of all descriptions cannot be too severely checked.
Each sought those who engaged him in the service. One flew along the narrow streets of the islands, to the residence of the Signor Gradenigo; another sought his son; and one, ignorant of the person of him he served, actually searched an agent of Don Camillo, to impart a circumstance in which that noble was himself so conspicuous an actor.
SECTION XIV. We cannot, therefore, see the extremity, wherein lay the sting and force of the whole creature, the chamber, namely, built by the Doge Gradenigo; but the reader must keep that commencement and the date of it carefully in his mind. The body of the Palace Serpent will soon become visible to us.
Again the Signor Gradenigo bowed submissively, and with apparent joy. He saw that his secret designs had been penetrated, notwithstanding all his practised duplicity and specious candor; and he submitted with that species of desperate resignation, which becomes a habit, if not a virtue, in men long accustomed to be governed despotically.
Old age to a statesman, however, is in many cases an advantage rather than a defect, and Falieri was young in vigor and character, and still full of life and strength. He was married a second time to presumably a beautiful wife much younger than himself, though the chroniclers are not agreed even on the subject of her name, whether she was a Gradenigo or a Contarini.
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