You would murder, rob, torture to-day as the great Duke, your grandfather, did.

You think we still are of the world independent.

You think we are powerful and great.

Bah! we are nothing--we are as a speck of dust.

But still we are the outlaws and the outcasts of Sicily, and some day Italy will crush us and we will be forgotten." "I dare them to molest us!" "Because you are imbecile.