I happen to know of the wager in which the calumny originated, and of the manner in which that wager was decided.

The events which followed are the only events that I need trouble you to describe." Baccani's grateful sense of relief avowed itself without reserve.
"I feel your kindness," he said, "almost as keenly as I feel my own disgraceful conduct, in permitting a woman's reputation to be made the subject of a wager.

From whom did you obtain your information ?" "From the person who mentioned your name to me--Doctor Benjulia." Baccani lifted his hand with a gesture of angry protest.
"Don't speak of him again in my presence!" he burst out.

"That man has insulted me.

When I took refuge from political persecution in this country, I sent him my prospectus.