He came to me with threats in his mouth, delivered a long harangue on the constitution, the powers of the government, our past history, and kept up such a din in my ears that finally I had to shut him up, too.

But you are the cleverest of the three; you have been trained as a diplomat, and have taken lessons in Vienna from Metternich himself.

Let us hear what you have to say." "Set my brothers free," returned Manasseh, boldly, "and promise me not to attack Toroczko; then I will give you sixteen fat oxen and twenty casks of plum brandy." The Wallachian sprang to his feet and clapped his hand to his sword.

"If you were only armed," he exclaimed wrathfully, "you should pay for your insolence by fighting me.

Do you take me for an Armenian peddler to be chaffered with in that fashion ?" Manasseh kept his seat on the edge of the table, swinging one foot carelessly to and fro.