Chapter 12 No.12

The permission of the Maggior Consiglio, under favor of this imperious government, was equivalent to a command and a public betrothal, and for a few ecstatic days the heir of the Ca' Giustiniani went about in a state of exaltation too great to be aware of any home shadows-the slumbering anger of the Capo of the Ten and an inharmonious atmosphere wh