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But now there is no longer any country that shares it
equally with Venice, for elsewhere they know not the art in its
fineness. These, when they are finished, shall be sent as a gift from
the Republic; it is so written in this order from the Senate."
"When came it to thee?"
"To-day, with much ceremony, it was delivered into mine own hand by one
of the Secretaries of the Ten. For, see'st thou, Marina, it is a mark of
rare favor that they have trusted this parchment with me, and have not
brought me into their presence to make copy of it in the palace. If thou
couldst lend me thy deft fingers----"
"Surely," she answered, smiling up at him.
He was standing over her with one hand on her shoulder; he rested the
other lightly on her hair, looking down into her eyes for a moment with
a caress still and tender, after his own grave fashion. "It will be
safer so," he said, folding the parchment and the letters carefully and
locking them away in his cabinet. "And to-morrow, Marina--for they have
granted me but one day.


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