Doge.‍Proceed, my daughter!

Mar. I had obtained permission from "the Ten"

To attend my husband for a limited number

Of hours.

Doge.‍You had so.

Mar.‍'Tis revoked.

Doge.‍By whom?

Mar. "The Ten."—When we had reached "the Bridge of Sighs,"[51]

Which I prepared to pass with Foscari,

The gloomy guardian of that passage first