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Notwithstanding the fine weather, the man was enveloped in an ample cloak,

and wore a hat with broad briold cloth, and his breeches were of brown satin At his

side glittered the jewelled hilt of a sword

He was of lofty stature, and his whole bearing indicated noble birth; his

style of dress and black hair and eyes attested his Italian origin The

narrow scar across his

face, as though he had been wounded by a sharp blade The mark was not

disfiguring, particularly when his features were in repose; but when he

was agitated by soes

of the scar assumed different hues, and appeared of a dull white mixed

with red and purple

At the ondola with

an expression of irritated jealousy, and his lips were strongly

contracted The color of the scar had changed with his increasing emotion,

and it was of a deep red He stood so near the water that his feet touched

it, and thus he prevented any one fro

the tumult of his soul