'Rogue! you deserve an imperial crown.

You have been educated for monarchy.

You are ready enough to dispense with what you don't care for, and what is not your own.' Much of the time was lost by Agostino's dispute with Salvolo.

They haggled and wrangled laughingly over this and that printed aria, but it was a deplorable deception of the unhappy man; and with Vittoria's stronger resolve to sing the incendiary song, the more necessary it was for her to have her soul clear of deceit.

She said, 'Signor Salvolo, you have been very kind to me, and I would do nothing to hurt your interests.