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` It is a very small caffè , and there is no need of more than one , ' and then I stared at him and frowned . He looks at me fixedly a moment , then gathers up his hat and gloves , and takes his pestilency off . '' The waiter , who had heard this story , man and boy , a hundred times , made a quite successful show of enjoying it , as he walked away with Tonelli 's fee of half a cent in his pocket . Tonelli then had left from his day 's salary enough to pay for the ice which he ate at ten o'clock , but which he would sometimes forego , in order to give the money in charity , though more commonly he indulged himself , and put off the beggar with , `` Another time , my dear . I have no leisure now to discuss those matters with thee . '' On holidays this routine of Tonelli 's life was varied . In the forenoon he went to mass at St. Mark 's , to see the beauty and fashion of the city ; and then he took a walk with his four or five young friends , or went with them to play at bowls , or even made an excursion to the main land , where they hired a carriage , and all those Venetians got into it , like so many seamen , and drove the horse with as little mercy as if he had been a sail-boat .