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"Nay, not one; there will be nine hundred, for the decoration of a
mosque," and Girolamo's eyes sparkled with triumph. "It is not that it
is difficult," he explained, for Marina's eyes wandered from her
father's face to the design with some astonishment. "It is even simple
for us. But when the Levant sends to Venice for these sacred lamps for
her own temples it is her acknowledgment that we have surpassed our
teachers. It is a glory for us!"
"Father, I thought the glass of Venice was even all our own!" Marina
exclaimed in a tone of disappointment. "I knew not that our art had come
from the East to us. Some say that it was born here."
"Ay, some; but thou shouldst know the story of thy Venice better, my
daughter," Girolamo answered gravely, for to him every detail connected
with his art was of vital import. "There may be some who say this, but
not thou. In the time of Orseolo the mosaics were brought from the
Levant for our old San Marco. Thus came the knowledge to us in those
early days.


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