"Neither Jew nor Jewess hath this day greeted my eye." "The calendar should mark the time for its singularity! I would know, Giacomo, if thou turnest to a right advantage the occasion of my guardianship, and if thou thinkest with sufficient gravity of the importance of what I urge ?" "Doubt it not, father.

He who hath so much suffered for the want of that which the Donna Violetta possesses in so great a profusion, needeth little prompting on such a subject.

By refusing to supply my wants, you have made certain of my consent.

There is not a fool in Venice who sighs more loudly beneath his mistress's window, than I utter my pathetic wishes to the lady--when there is opportunity, and I am in the humor." "Thou knowest the danger of alarming the senate ?" "Fear me not.

My progress is by secret and gradual means.