No doubt Doria is fond of fresh fish.

Otherwise you would be detected, for the Genoese boats are, of course, quite different to ours, and even in the dark they would make out that you belonged to the lagoons.
"Ah, here is supper! It is not often that I should have anything to offer you, but one of my men managed to catch three or four fish today, and sold them to me at about their weight in silver.

However, I have some good wine from my own cellars, and a man who has good wine, fish, and bread can do royally, whatever this grumbling brother of mine may say." Half an hour later, a soldier brought the news that the gondola was in the water, and Francis bade adieu to his friends, and started at once.
"Row slowly and quietly," he said, as he took his seat.

"Do not let your oars make the slightest splash in the water, until we are well across to the opposite shore.

They may have a guard boat lying in the channel." The light craft made her way noiselessly across the water.