I denounced all my kinsfolk and acquaintances to the tribunal to be avenged on one man who had deceived me,--all of them were taken except him and he escaped.

And now I am a beggar, an accursed creature whom everyone drives from his door, but what care I ?--I never feel hungry.

They took away all my father's property--heaven only knows how much there was, more than twenty thousand ducats, I think, and it would have been mine for I am his only child.

I was summoned before the court, they said they would reward me for denouncing the society, they said they would give me a thousand ducats.

Ha, ha, ha! a thousand ducats for making myself the wretched creature I am! But I did not come here to frighten your ladyship, I came here to humbly beg a favour.