And then Sampiero was waging deadly war against the Genoese.

What confidence could his fellow-countrymen have felt in him if he had not punished his wife, who tried to treat with Genoa ?" "Vannina," said the sailor, "had started off without her husband's leave.

Sampiero did quite right to wring her neck!" "But," said Miss Lydia, "it was to save her husband, it was out of love for him, that she was going to ask his pardon from the Genoese." "To ask his pardon was to degrade him!" exclaimed Orso.
"And then to kill her himself!" said Miss Lydia.

"What a monster he must have been!" "You know she begged as a favour that she might die by his hand.

What about Othello, mademoiselle, do you look on him, too, as a monster ?" "There is a difference; he was jealous.