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The resident of Venice, having come to pay his respects to him,

and endeavouring to read in his features and deportment what was

passing in his mind, Don Gonzalo spoke lightly of the tumult, as

a thing already quieted, making use, however, of the reception of

Renzo, in the Bergamascan territory, as a pretext for complaint

against the Venetians. The result is known to our readers. When

he had answered his own purposes, with the affair, it was

entirely forgotten by him.