Would you like to live in it ?" "In this palace?
Here in Venice ?" "It's for rent," he told her; "the consul has it." "But could we afford it ?" "Well," said Peter, "if you like it so much, at the rate things are here, we can pull it up by the roots and take it back to Bloombury." They lost themselves in absurd speculations as to the probable effect on the villagers of that, and so failed to take note as their gondola nosed into the green shadow under the consulate, of the _Merrythought's_ launch athwart the landing, until the captain himself hailed them.
"This port," he declared, "is under embargo.

I have been waiting here since half tide and there's nothing doing.

Somebody's in there chewing red tape, but I don't calculate to let anybody else have a turn at it until I get my bit wound up an' tied in a knot.

Now don't tell me you've got business in there ?" "We want to find out something." "Well, when ye find it, it won't be what ye want," asserted the captain gloomily.

"It never is in these Dago countries." He motioned his own boat aside from the landing.