But the opposition of the grave father and sister made their consent the better worth winning, and set the youthful Gabriele in a more attractive light.

Gabriele, the jilted lover of Toinetta, over whom Piero had triumphed, soon became the husband of another donzel, handsomer than Toinetta had beenpoor, foolish Toinetta!and the retributive tragedy of her little life had warmed the sullen Gabriele into a magnanimity that rendered him at least a safe, if a moody and unpleasant, member of the traghetto in which Piero had since become a rising star.