Persons belonging to that house, and the families connected with it, were assaulted in the streets, and all Venice was in an uproar.
"There is one comfort," Giuseppi said, when he heard from Francis what had taken place.

"Just at present, Mocenigo will have enough to think about his own affairs without troubling about you.

I have been in a tremble ever since that day, and have dreamed bad dreams every night." "You are more nervous for me than I am for myself, Giuseppi; but I have been careful too, for although Ruggiero himself was away his friends are here, and active, too, as you see by this successful attempt.

But I think that at present they are likely to let matters sleep.

Public opinion is greatly excited over the affair, and as, if I were found with a stab in my back, it would, after what has passed, be put down to them, I think they will leave me alone." "I do hope, father," Francis said at breakfast the next morning, "that there may be no opportunity of sending me back to England, until something is heard of the Polanis." "I have somewhat changed my mind, Francis, as to that matter.