"Can you make other figures and objects?"
"Yes, signor."
"Where did you learn?"
"From grandfather, signor."
"I have been greatly surprised this evening, as also have been my guests, at sight of this—this decoration, and ahem—"
"Now it's coming," thought Tonin in a panic. "Perhaps he'll put me in a dungeon."
"I have sent it clear around the table so that every one might examine it closely, and we all agree about it. How should you like to make statues, lad,—nymphs, you know, and fairies—"
"And goddesses like that one upstairs?" cried Tonin, his face alight with this unexpected turn of the conversation.
"Yes."
"Oh, oh! I'd rather make a goddess like that than to be a king, or go to the carnival!"