"Then they could pounce upon them over there, and find out all about it for themselves ?" "I have thought about it, Giuseppi, but there is something treacherous in secret denunciations.

These men have done me no harm, and as a foreigner their political schemes do not greatly concern me.

I should not like to think I had sent twelve men to the dungeons and perhaps to death." "I think it's a pity you ever went there at all, Messer Francisco." "Well, perhaps it is, Giuseppi; but I never thought it would turn out a serious affair like this.

However, I do wish I hadn't gone now; not that I think it really matters, or that we shall ever hear anything more of it.

We may, perhaps, some day see the result of this conspiracy, that is, if its objects are such as I guess them to be; namely, to form a party opposed to war with Hungary, Padua, or Genoa." For some days after this Francis abstained from late excursions in the gondola.