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Updated: June 9, 2025
"You know, Signor Gradenigo," she said, with a loftiness that was not less puzzling, though far more intelligible than the agitation which a moment before had embarrassed her manner, "that I am the last of a line eminent for centuries in the state of Venice." "So sayeth our history."
Giacomo Gradenigo made a sign for his gondola to approach, and dropping a sack which contained the retainer in this bloody business, he passed into it with the indifference of one who had been accustomed to consider such means of attaining his object lawful. Not so Hosea: he was a rogue rather than a villain.
And even then" the old man turned aside to conceal the working of his features "I struggled to remember from how much pain, and toil, and suffering they were removed to enjoy a more blessed state." The lip of the Signer Gradenigo quivered, and he moved to and fro with a quicker step. "I think, Antonio," he said, "I think, honest Antonio, I had masses said for the souls of them all?"
The steed that ranges the plains in the freedom of nature, cannot be held to perfect command, like the dull beast that draws the car. This is the first of your sittings in the Three; but experience will show you that excellent as we are in system, we are not quite perfect in practice. This is grave matter of the young Gradenigo, Signori!"
The latter gradually prevailed, his companions taking care that their compliance should have the air of a concession to his arguments. The result of all this management was, that the heir of Gradenigo was condemned to ten years' retirement in the provinces, and Hosea to banishment for life.
Even the attempt of Giacomo Gradenigo on the life of the Neapolitan, and the agency of the Hebrew, were fully exposed. None listened to this explanation so intently as the young husband. Notwithstanding his public duties, his pulses quickened as the prisoner dwelt on the different chances of the lovers, and when their final union was proclaimed, he felt his heart bound with delight.
The Signor Gradenigo felt the sting of this retort, which in no degree aided the cause of his indiscreet foster-brother. After pacing the room in agitation for some time, he so far conquered his resentment as to answer more mildly, as became his rank.
His associates bowed in courteous acknowledgment of the justice of what he said, and of the loyalty of his conduct, but it was in the manner of men too long accustomed to duplicity to be easily duped. "None doubt it, worthy Signor Gradenigo, for thy faith to the state is ever quoted as a model for the young, and as a subject for the approbation of the more experienced.
Let the neighborhood quiet the household by its sneers. What next?" "A suitor in the courts maketh complaint of the tardiness of the judges." "This toucheth the reputation of St. Mark; it must be looked to!" "Hold!" interrupted the Signor Gradenigo. "The tribunal acted advisedly 'tis in the matter of a Hebrew, who is thought to have secrets of importance.
"Is not this he who urged us with importunity concerning a youth that is gone into the service of the state?" exclaimed the Prince, across whose countenance passed that expression of habitual reserve which so often concealed the feelings of the man. "The same," returned a cold voice, which the ear of Antonio well knew came from the Signor Gradenigo.
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