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"Eccellenza, thanks; the gransiere has not much beside his beard to keep
him warm, and the time draws near," the old man answered with pleasant
Venetian insouciance.
"Tell me," said the Veronese, turning to the younger man, "why do you
young fellows make Venice ring with your scandals? You are cutting off
your own 'liberties.'"
"Yes, signore." The gondolier hesitated, glancing doubtfully at the
artist's sumptuous attire, which might have indicated a state much
greater than he kept; for the Veronese was famed throughout Venice, in
quarters where he was better known, for an unfailing splendor of costume
which would have made him at all times a model for the pictures he loved
to paint. Recently, for bad conduct, the gondoliers had been gradually
forfeiting their licenses, or "liberties," as they were called in
Venice, and the thought crossed the young fellow's mind that this
splendid stranger was possibly one of those government officials who
were charged with the supervision of the confraternities of the
traghetti.


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