Age and infirmities are more potent than our wishes." "Thou art moody to-night, Signor Gradenigo.

Thou art not used to be so silent with thy friends." "I am not the less grateful, Signore, for their favors.

If I have a loaded countenance, I bear a lightened heart.

One who hath a daughter of his own so happily bestowed in wedlock as thine, may judge of the relief I feel by this disposition of my ward.

Joy affects the exterior, frequently, like sorrow; aye, even to tears." His two companions looked at the speaker with much obvious sympathy in their manners.