text:  These various events had succeeded each other so rapidly that Antonio could hardly credit his senses when he found himself in this strange manner the deliverer of the mysterious being who now sat under the awning of his gondola her frightful countenance unveiled in the struggle and no longer seen through the beautifying prism of the young artist's imagination again displaying the yellow and wrinkled skin and the deep-set glittering eyes which now seemed fixed upon him with an expression of love and gratitude that froze his blood