Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - volume 06
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Queer stories used to be told about him. He was a skilful gondolier, and it was the daily row back and forth from the Lido that gave himthat face of bronze. Folks said he ate no meat and drank no wine, and that his food was simply ripe figs in the season, with coarserye bread and nuts. Then there was that funny old hunchback, ahundred years old at least, and stone-deaf, who took care of thegondola, spending the whole day, waiting for his master, washing thetrim, graceful, blue-black boat, arran...ging the awning with the whitecords and tassels, and polishing the little brass lions at thesides. People tried to question the old hunchback, but he gave nosecrets away. The master always stood up behind and rowed, whiledown on the cushions rode the hunchback, the guest of honor. There stood the master erect, plying the oar, his long black robetucked up under the dark blue sash that exactly matched the color ofthe gondola. The man's motto might have been, "Ich Dien, " or thatpassage of Scripture, "He that is greatest among you shall be yourservant.
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