The young man shrugged his shoulders as though he did not care.
Don Paolo sat down again and grasped his umbrella.
"Gianbattista," said the priest, "I am grateful to you for your friendship, my boy.

But it is very wrong to be violent--" "It is one of the seven deadly sins!" cried Marzio, finding his voice at last, and by a strange accident venting his feelings in a sentence which might have been spoken by a confessor to a penitent.
Gianbattista could not help laughing, but he shook his head as though to explain that it was not his fault if he was violent with such a man.
"It is very wrong to threaten people, Tista," repeated Don Paolo; "and besides it does not hurt me, what Marzio says.

Let us all be calm.
Marzio, let us discuss this matter reasonably.

Tista, do not be angry at anything that is said.

There is nothing to be done but to look at the question quietly." "It is very well for you to talk like that," grumbled Marzio, pretending to busy himself over his model in order to cover his agitation.
"It is of no use to talk in any other way," answered the priest "I return to the subject.