In this particular, she maybe rendered of as much, or even more use, than the oldest and wisest of our body.

But that her will may be free and the child may have no obstacles to her happiness, it will be necessary to make a speedy determination of the claim preferred by Don Camillo.

Can we do better than to recommend a compromise, that he may return without delay to his own Calabria ?" "The concern is weighty, and it demands deliberation." "He complains of our tardiness already, and not without show of reason.
It is five years since the claim was first preferred." "Signor Gradenigo, it is for the vigorous and healthful to display their activity--the aged and the tottering must move with caution.

Were we in Venice to betray precipitation in so weighty a concern, without seeing an immediate interest in the judgment, we should trifle with a gale of fortune that every sirocco will not blow into the canals.

We must have terms with the lord of Sant' Agata, or we greatly slight our own advantage." "I hinted of the matter to your excellencies, as a consideration for your wisdom; methinks it will be something gained to remove one so dangerous from the recollection and from before the eyes of a love-sick maiden." "Is the damsel so amorous ?" "She is of Italy, Signore, and our sun bestows warm fancies and fervent minds." "Let her to the confessional and her prayers! The godly prior of St.
Mark will discipline her imagination till she shall conceit the Neapolitan a Moor and an infidel.