And just then he said to me, 'You have a beautiful pair of masters you and your brother.' 'Why ?' I asked, and I held the boat-hook ready.

But I would not have hurt the boy, because he is one of ours.

So he told me that he had just seen the Count up there in the garden of the hotel, trying to kiss Teresina and offering her the gold, and I gave him half a cigar to tell me the rest, because he would not, and made faces." "May he die murdered!" exclaimed Ruggiero in a low voice, his face as white as canvas.
"Wait a little, she is a good girl," answered Bastianello.

"Teresina threw the gold upon the ground and told the Count that he was an infamous one and a liar.

And then she went away.