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Andreas--While celebrating the father's bravery, you seeotten the son

Lomellino--His son is arrived in Venice, and wishes to enter into

the service of the Republic I entreat you, give the young man some

respectable situation; he will prove the boast of Venice e

shall be in our graves, on that would I hazard my existence

Andreas--Has he sense and talent?

Lomellino--That he has; a heart like his father's Will it please

you to see and converse with hireat saloon One thing I ns He has heard of the banditti who infest Venice, and he

engages that the first piece of service which he renders the

Republic shall be the delivering into the hands of justice those

concealed assassins, who hitherto have eluded the vigilance of our

police

Andreas--Indeed! I doubt that promise will be too much for his

power to perform Flodoardo, I think you called him? Tell hiained at least the HALF of my cause,

and I believe the WHOLE of it, for to see Flodoardo and not to like

him is as difficult as to look at Paradise and not wish to enter

To see Flodoardo and to hate him is as unlikely as that a blind man

should hate the kind hand which removes the cataract froht and beauties of nature