"It was evidently an attempt to carry you off, and now that you have escaped they will care nothing for your duenna.

She seemed to have lost her head altogether, for as I lifted you into the boat she clung so fast to your garments that I fancy a portion of them were left in her grasp." "Do you know where to take us?
I see you are going in the right direction ?" the girl asked.
"To the Palazzo Polani," Francis said.

"I have the honour of being a friend of your cousin, Matteo Giustiniani, and being with him one day when you passed in your gondola, he named you to me." "A friend of Matteo!" the girl repeated in surprise.

"Pardon me, signor, I thought you were two passing gondoliers.

It was so dark that I could not recognize you; and, you see, it is so unusual to see a gentleman rowing." "I am English, signora, and we are fond of strong exercise, and so after nightfall, when it cannot shock my friends, I often take an oar myself." "I thank you, sir, with all my heart, for my sister and myself, for the service you have rendered us.