I determined to wait until to-morrow, and I came here to take a night's rest before setting out on the journey." "And you played at dice ?" said Turchi.
"I think I did; for the rattling of the dice still sounds in my ears." "And the money?
the two hundred crowns ?" "Be quiet, signor, on that point.

I ask you for nothing.

What business is it of yours that I have spent or lost a few pieces of gold, provided I leave for Germany to-morrow at daybreak ?" Simon Turchi was like one frenzied.
"Yes," he exclaimed, "and at the first tavern you meet on the way you will drown your senses with drink, and you will squander my money." "Not so, signor; rely upon me--I will leave to-morrow morning at daybreak, and if I drink on the way it will only be to quench a burning thirst." Simon Turchi's eye shone with a sudden and mysterious light, excited by some secret thought.

He became calm, and shrugging his shoulders, said quietly, as though he submitted with resignation to the contradictions which he could not avoid: "I ought, Julio, to punish your want of fidelity.

If the bailiff had come here to-day, as I expected, your culpable neglect of duty would have placed us both in the hands of justice.