"Sit down near me, for I have not power to raise my voice." "I notice, signor, that you are very pale.

Are you ill ?" "My emotion has its origin in something worse than illness.

Day before yesterday Signor Turchi asserted in your presence that Geronimo had lost a considerable sum at play, and that he had fled the country to escape my just indignation.

Great as was my confidence in Turchi, I could not credit the truth of this revelation.

I determined to seek in my nephew's accounts the marks of his ingratitude, or rather the proofs of his innocence.