"Guidice will lose nothing by waiting." "Evvviva Ors' Anton'!" And the reports of a dozen guns capped the plaudit.
Very much put out, Orso sat in the midst of the group of mounted men, all talking at once, and crowding round to shake hands with him.

For some time he could not make himself heard.

At last, with the air he put on when he used to reprimand the men of his company, or send one of them to the guard-room, he said: "I thank you, friends, for the affection you show for me, and for that which you felt for my father! But I do not want advice from any of you, and you must not offer it.

I know my own duty." "He's right! He's right!" cried the herdsmen.

"You know you may reckon on us!" "Yes, I do reckon on you.