Behold how patient is my clemency.
Five minutes shall you have where many another would hang you out of hand for bearding him as you have done me." "You may begin at once," said I."neither five minutes nor five years will alter my determination." His brow grew black with anger.

"We shall see," was all he said.
There was a silence now in which we waited, a storm of thoughts battling in my mind.

Presently Ramiro caught up one of the flagons and applied it to his cup.

It proved empty, and in a gust of passion he hurled it against the wall where it burst into a thousand pieces.

Clearly he was very angry, and it taxed my wits to account for the little measure of patience he was showing me.
"Beppo!" he called.