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The Lion of Mark

If it so please them: I am the State's servant.

Sen. They would accord some time for your repose. Doge. I have no repose, that is, none which shall cause The loss of an hour's time unto the State.

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Let them meet when they will, I shall be found Where I should be, and what I have been ever. [Exit Senator. The DOGE remains in silence.

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[Exit Attendant. The DOGE remains in silence as before.

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Command my time, when not commanded by
The State.

Mar. I wished to speak to you of him.
Doge. Your husband?

Mar.

Doge.

And your son.

Proceed, my daughter!

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Mar. I had obtained permission from "the Ten

To attend my husband for a limited number

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Mar. "The Ten."-When we had reached "the Bridge of Sighs," 1

1. [The Bridge of Sighs was not built till the end of the sixteenth century. (Vide ante, Marino Faliero, act i. sc. 2, line 508, Poetical Works, 1901, iv. 363, note 2; see, too, Childe Harold, Canto IV. stanza i. line 1, et post, act iv. sc. 1, line 75.)]

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