text:  "Gracious Heaven!" exclaimed the bewildered Antonio half suspecting the truth "who was that daring youth?" After a pause and in tones broken and inarticulate his father answered--"Thy twin brother Antonio! When a child he was stolen from me by some Turks in Candia; and those who stole have given him their own daring and heroic nature for they are great and rising while Venice and her sons are falling and degenerate