Ignorance of the uneducated people! That is the _Palazzo di Donn' Anna_, and _Donna Anna Carafa_ was a great Neapolitan _signora_, wife of the Duke of Medina, the Spanish viceroy who constructed the palace for her and was not able to finish it."...
He was about to say more but stopped himself.

Ah, no! By the Madonna!...

Again they had begun to talk, without listening to him....
And he finally took refuge in offended silence, while they chattered continually behind his back.
Ferragut felt an interest in the remote love-affairs of the Neapolitan great lady with the prudent and aristocratic Spanish magnate.

His passion had made the grave viceroy commit the folly of constructing a palace in the sea.

The sailor was also in love with a woman of another race and felt equal desires to do whimsical things for her.
"I have read the mandates of Nietzsche," he said to her, by way of explaining his enthusiasm,--"'seek thy wife outside thy country.' That is the best thing." Freya smiled sadly.
"Who knows ?...