The compliment may mean no more than any other idle usage, and they should not quit us unthanked." "Rest you within.

I will watch the movement of the boats, for it surpasseth female endurance not to note their aspect." "Thanks, dearest Florinda! hasten, lest they enter the other canal ere thou seest them." The governess was quickly in the balcony.

Active as was her movement, her eyes were scarcely cast upon the shadow beneath, before a hurried question demanded what she beheld.
"Both gondolas are gone," was the answer; "that with the musicians is already entering the great canal, but that of the cavalier hath unaccountably disappeared!" "Nay, look again; he cannot be in such haste to quit us." "I had not sought him in the right direction.

Here is his gondola, by the bridge of our own canal." "And the cavalier?
He waits for some sign of courtesy; it is meet that we should not withhold it." "I see him not.

His servitor is seated on the steps of the landing, while the gondola appeareth to be empty.