You very often only take Beppo with you, when you do not go on business, and I often want a boat that I could take with Giuseppi.

Besides, your gondola is a very solid one, and I like passing people." "Young people always want to go fast," Mr.Hammond said.

"Why, I can't make out.

However, Francis, I am not sorry that you have got a boat of your own, for it has happened several times lately, that when in the evening I have gone down intending to row round to the Piazzetta, I have found the boat gone, and have had to walk.

Now I shall be able to rely on finding Beppo asleep in the boat at the steps.