The face was melancholy rather than sombre, and its perfect repose accorded well with the striking calmness of the body.

The lineaments of the former, however, were bold and even noble, exhibiting that strong and manly outline which is so characteristic of the finer class of the Italian countenance.

Out of this striking array of features gleamed an eye that was full of brilliancy, meaning, and passion.
As the stranger passed, his glittering organs rolled over the persons of the gondolier and his companion, but the look, though searching, was entirely without interest.

'Twas the wandering but wary glance, which men who have much reason to distrust, habitually cast on a multitude.

It turned with the same jealous keenness on the face of the next it encountered, and by the time the steady and well balanced form was lost in the crowd, that quick and glowing eye had gleamed, in the same rapid and uneasy manner, on twenty others.
Neither the gondolier nor the mariner of Calabria spoke until their riveted gaze after the retiring figure became useless.