It was rather by a frank address which took equality for granted, and by an easy assumption that the visit had no importance, that he calmed Messer Blondel's nerves and soothed his pride.
Presently, "If I do not the honour of my poor apartment so pressingly as some," he said, "it is out of no lack of respect, Messer Syndic.

But because, having had much experience of visitors, I know that nothing fits them so well as to be left at liberty, nothing irks them so much as to be over-pressed.

Here now I have some things that are thought to be curious, even in Padua, but I do not know whether they will interest you." "Manuscripts ?" "Yes, manuscripts and the like.

This," Basterga lifted one from the table and placed it in his visitor's hands, "is a facsimile, prepared with the utmost care, of the 'Codex Vaticanus,' the most ancient manuscript of the New Testament.

Of interest in Geneva, where by the hands of your great printer, Stephens, M.de Beza has done so much to advance the knowledge of the sacred text.