Even his nearest connections will not dare to defend conduct so outrageous, especially when public indignation has been so excited.
"You do not know, girls, what a stir has been caused in the city on your account.

If it had not been for the citizen guard, I believe the Mocenigo Palace would have been burned down; and Ruggiero's connections have scarcely dared to show their faces in the streets, since you have been missing.

You see, every father of a family felt personally grieved, for if the nobles were permitted, with impunity, to carry off the daughters of citizens, who could feel safe?
"When this is all over I shall take you, for a time, back to our home in Corfu.

It is not good for girls to be the subject of public talk and attention." "I shall be very glad, father," Giulia said.

"I love our home at Corfu, with its gardens and flowers, far better than the palazzo here.