Save me from that sort of pride! I am content to take my patent of nobility for good conduct in the revolution.

Then I will be count, or marquis, or duke; I am not a Republican pure blood;--but not till then.

And in the meantime--' 'Carlo is composing for his newspaper,' the countess said to Luciano.
'Those are the leaders who can lead,' the latter replied.

'Give the men who are born to it the first chance.

Old Agostino is right--the people owe them their vantage ground.