He's drinking it out." "I can do nothing for your Excellency to-day," said Antonio.

"Come here to-morrow at the same hour, and I think you'll have reason to be satisfied." Berti was punctual to the appointment.

Signor Antonio, for fear of being swindled, asked for an accurate description of the missing article.

This having been given, he at once produced the snuff-box.
"Your Excellency will please to pay me two scudi," he said; "I should have charged you four, but that you are recommended to me by a magistrate whom I particularly esteem." It would appear that all the Roman magistrates are not equally estimable; at least to judge from what happened to the Marquis de Sesmaisons.

He was robbed of half-a-dozen silver spoons and forks.