"Like that of all your countrymen, your record is written down at the Commune." "It is a clean one, at any rate, signore," he declared with some slight warmth.

"I have a permesso to carry a revolver, which is in itself sufficient proof that I am a man of spotless character." "I cast no reflection whatever upon you, Olinto," I answered.

"I have merely inquired after your wife, and you do not give me a direct reply." We had walked to the Royal Oak, and stood talking on the curb outside.
"I give you no reply, because I can't," he said in Italian.

"Armida--my poor Armida--has left home." "Why did you tell me such a tale of distress regarding her ?" "As I have already explained, signore, I was not then master of my own actions.

I was ruled by others.