A moment later he had heated the thick end of it again and was welding it over the hole he had made in the body of the vessel.
"The man has three hands!" exclaimed the foreman.
"And two of them are for stealing," added Piero.
"Or all three," put in the beetle-browed man who was working next to Zorzi.
Zorzi looked at him coldly a moment, but said nothing.

They did not mean that he was a thief, except in the sense that he had stolen his knowledge of their art.

He went on to make the handle of the ampulla, an easy matter compared with making the spout.

But the highest part of glass-blowing lies in shaping graceful curves, and it is often in the smallest differences of measurement that the pieces made by Beroviero and Zorzi--preserved intact to this day--differ from similar things made by lesser artists.

Yet in those little variations lies all the great secret that divides grace from awkwardness.