You will, of course, remain here till morning ?" "I cannot do that, sir, though I will return the first thing.

There is, lying on my table, a paper with the particulars and names of the persons I saw meet in this hut, and a request to my father that, if I do not return in the morning, he will at once lay this before the council.

I place it there every day when I go out, in order that, if I should be seized and carried off by Mocenigo's people, I should have some means of forcing them to let me go.
"Although I know absolutely nothing of the nature of the conspiracy, they will not know how much I am aware of, or what particulars I may have given in the document; and as I could name to them those present, and among them is the envoy of the King of Hungary, now in the city, they would hardly dare harm me, when they knew that if they did so this affair would be brought before the council." "It was an excellent precaution, Francisco.

Why, you are as prudent and thoughtful as you are courageous!" "It was not likely to be of much use, sir," Francis said modestly.

"I was very much more likely to get a stab in the back than to be carried off.