"In her house were not only laundresses, sempstresses, carpenters, tailors and tailoresses, there was even a harness-maker — he was reckoned as a veterinary surgeon, too, — and a doctor for the servants; there was a household doctor for the mistress; there was, lastly, a shoemaker, by name"
"Then the harness-maker rose and went to an inner doorway and called through it something that brought out a comely, motherly woman as alert as himself."
"'Excellency,' he said, 'Caterina, the sister of this man, would by now be married to the son of the harness-maker in Estalebona, had not the harness-maker intervened."