Gentlemen, I cannot be more explicit.

I wish that I could please you better.' 'Oh, by all means,' said Pietro Cardi: 'but patience is the pestilence; I shall roam in quest of adventure.

Another quiet week is a tremendous trial.' He crossed foils with Leone Rufo, but finding no stop to the drawn 'swish' of the steel, he examined the end of his weapon with a lengthening visage, for it was buttonless.

Ammiani burst into laughter at the spontaneous boyishness in the faces of the pair of ambitious lads.

They both offered him one of the rapiers upon equal terms.