The statesman had expected as much, and was not at all surprised at the young man's silence.
"One of those young gentlemen seems to have met his match, at all events," he remarked, presently.

"I am sorry it should have come about in that way." "Your Eminence might easily have prevented the duel." "I knew nothing about it," answered the Cardinal, glancing keenly at Anastase.
"Nor I," said the artist, simply.
"You see my information is not always so good as people imagine, my friend." "It is a pity," remarked Gouache.

"It would have been better had poor Del Ferice been killed outright.

The matter would have terminated there." "Whereas--" "Whereas Del Ferice will naturally seek an occasion for revenge." "You speak as though you were a friend of Don Giovanni's," said the Cardinal.
"No; I have a very slight acquaintance with him.

I admire him, he has such a fine head.