"He will certainly be a dangerous enemy if he is alive; and yet the thought of having killed a man troubles me much." "It would not trouble me at all if I were in your place," Matteo said.
"If you had not killed him, you may be very sure that he would have killed you, and that the deed would have caused him no compunction whatever.

It was a fair fight, just as if it had been a hostile galley in mid-sea; and I don't see why the thought of having rid Venice of one of her worst citizens need trouble you in any way." "You see I have been brought up with rather different ideas to yours, Matteo.

My father, as a trader, is adverse to fighting of all kinds--save, of course, in defence of one's country; and although he has not blamed me in any way for the part I took, I can see that he is much disquieted, and indeed speaks of sending me back to England at once." "Oh, I hope not!" Matteo said earnestly.

"Hitherto you and I have been great friends, Francis, but we shall be more in future.

All Polani's friends will regard you as one of themselves; and I was even thinking, on my way here, that perhaps you and I might enter the service of the state together, and get appointed to a war galley in a few years." "My father's hair would stand up at the thought, Matteo; though, for myself, I should like nothing so well.