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The case had changed from a matter of gracious policy to one of
unquestioned importance in the minds of the gravest counsellors of the
Republic--in spite of the glamor of romance which threatened to lessen
its dignity by winning the enthusiastic support of the younger members
of the assembly and the jealous opposition of the older senators, who
were tenacious of the privileges and restrictions of the ancient
nobility of Venice. The faces of many among them were dark and
threatening. One of their number high in authority, whose seat was near
the Savii on the dais, and who was known to be of the strictest
oligarchical proclivities, risked the words, "_Remember the Serrata
Consiglio_," in a clear undertone, but was immediately repressed by a
terrible glance from more than one of the commanding Savii.
Giustinian Giustiniani was alone kept silent by the force of conflicting
emotions which left him only strength enough to realize that he was too
angry to advise with dignity, though he was one of the Chiefs of the
Ten.


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