Your servant deserves a reward also.

Here are twenty pistoles; tell him not to throw them away, but to lay them by where some day they will be useful to him." Paolo was astonished indeed when Hector handed him the general's present.

He could at first hardly believe that it was meant for him.
"Why, master," he said, "it would buy me a farm up in the hills!" "Not a very large one, Paolo, but I daresay that you will add to it; still, this is a good beginning, and some more opportunities may come in your way." "What shall I do with them, master ?" "That I cannot say.

Certainly you cannot carry them about with you.

Do you know anyone to whom you could entrust them ?" Paolo shook his head.