"I will go to Aquila at once, and I daresay my father will accompany me--" "Of course I will," broke in the old Prince.
"We will go, and in a fortnight's time we will produce the whole history of this Giovanni Saracinesca, together with his wife and himself in his own person, if they are both alive; we will bring them here, and they will assure you that you have been egregiously deceived, played upon and put in a false position by--by the person who furnished you with these documents.

I wonder that any Roman of common-sense should not have seen at once the cause of this mistake." "I cannot believe it," murmured Donna Tullia.

Then raising her voice, she added, "Whatever may be the result of your inquiry, I cannot but feel that I have done my duty in this affair.

I do not believe in your theory, nor in you, and I shall not, until you produce this other man.

I have done my duty--" "An exceedingly painful one, no doubt," remarked old Saracinesca.