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One day Bassanio came to Antonio, and told him that he wished to repair his fortune by a wealthy marriage with a lady whom he dearly loved, whose father, that was lately dead, had left her sole heiress to a large estate; and that in her father's lifetime he used to visit at her house, when he thought he had observed this lady had sometimes from her eyes sent speechless messages that seemed to say he would be no unwelcome suitor; but not having money to furnish himself with an appearance befitting the lover of so rich an heiress, he besought Antonio to add to the many favors he had shown him, by lending him three thousand ducats.
Master Headley would not trust one of the boys with the good silver coins that had been paid as the price of the sword French crowns and Milanese ducats, with a few Venetian gold bezants but he bade them go as guards to Tibble, for it was always a perilous thing to carry a sum of money through the London streets. Tibble was not an unwilling messenger.
He's Jose Navarro, the most noted bandit in Andalusia. I've been making signs to you all day long, and you wouldn't understand." "What do I care whether he's a brigand or not," I replied. "He hasn't robbed us, and I'll wager he doesn't want to." "That may be. But there are two hundred ducats on his head.
At Compostella the Archbishop offered him his own palace, which O'Donnell respectfully declined: he afterwards celebrated a Solemn High Mass for the Irish chief's intention, entertained him magnificently at dinner, and presented him, as the governor had done, with 1,000 ducats.
After supper both went to bed as before. Toward midnight again commenced the terrible noise in the castle, and in the midst of the tumult a voice crying: "Destiny, Destiny, so many souls have seen the light to-day. Give them something at thy good pleasure." Destiny arose and opened a silver coffer, but this time there were no ducats in it, only silver money mixed with a few pieces of gold.
The king, looking round on the circle of spectators, saw Malagigi and Rinaldo, and observed the splendid cup that they had, and said to Charlot, "See, my son, what a brilliant cup those two pilgrims have got. It seems to be worth a hundred ducats." "That is true," said Charlot; "Let us go and ask where they got it."
King James was beset by a thousand bribes and expostulations to avenge his mother's death; and although that mother had murdered his father, and done her best to disinherit himself, yet it was feared that Spanish ducats might induce him to be true to his mother's revenge, and false to the reformed religion. Nothing of good was hoped for from France.
The king told him he could do nothing for him, as Branicki maintained he had only given insult for insult. I saw Tomatis, who told me in confidence that he could easily take vengeance, but that it would cost him too dear. He had spent forty thousand ducats on the two ballets, and if he had avenged himself he would have lost it nearly all, as he would be obliged to leave the kingdom.
"In the venta; he is sleeping. He is not afraid of the fleas. Why are you taking away my horse?" I then observed that, in order to prevent any noise, Antonio had carefully wrapped the animal's feet in the remains of an old sack. "Hush!" said Antonio. "That man there is José Navarro, the most famous bandit of Andalusia. There are two hundred ducats for whoever gives him up.
He answered: 'Go to work; you shall cast it over and over again till it succeeds; and I will give you enough to satisfy your wishes. To put it briefly, I cast the statue twice; and at the end of two years, at Bologna, I found that I had four and a half ducats left.