The Signor Antonio-Pericles has gold ears for everything that concerns the signorina.

'A patriot is she!' he says; and he is jealous of your English friends.

He thinks they will distract you from your studies; and perhaps"-- Luigi nodded sagaciously before he permitted himself to say--"perhaps he is jealous in another way.

I have heard him speak like a sonnet of the signorina's beauty.

The Signor Antonio-Pericles thinks that you have come here to-day to meet them.