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If you wish to make a present of a beggar's staff, I can recommend you to a turner who lives hard by." "Master Boltay, don't be so impatient. The staff I spoke of is only an emblem. I have a plan, I say, which you must know of. It would be better if you came and sat down by me and heard me out. Look now! I want Abellino to wait in vain for the hour of my death.
For myself I swear that I had rather a thousand times force my passage with a single vessel through the whole Turkish fleet, and carry off the admiral's ship from the midst of them, than attempt to seize this Abellino, who seems to have entered into a compact with Lucifer himself: who is to be found everywhere and nowhere; whom so many have seen, but whom no one knows; whose cautious subtlety has brought to shame the vigilance of our State inquisitors, of the College of Ten, and of all their legions of spies and sbirri; whose very name strikes terror into the hearts of the bravest Venetians, and from whose dagger I myself am not safe upon my throne.
At these words Abellino collapsed; his arms and legs grew limp and feeble, and he involuntarily stammered in his terror "Est-ce possible? Can it be possible?" "Yes, sir, it can. I am that John Kárpáthy whom the country folks jokingly call Master Jock, and who likes to be so called."
"That's just where my congratulations come in. All at home send you their best greetings, kisses, and embraces. The old gentleman is as sound as an acorn, or as a ripe apple freshly plucked from the tree. Don't be in the least concerned on his account; your uncle feels remarkably well. But your aunt is sick, very sick, and to all appearance she will be sicker still." "Poor auntie!" said Abellino.
Boltay's house, and Teresa had kept it quiet, no doubt, because there had been certain relations between her and Boltay in their younger days, or perhaps she went to see him because Boltay's adopted son wanted to marry Fanny. As for herself, she did not mean to trouble her head about them any more. Abellino bit his lips till the blood came, he was so angry.
Parozzi, how will this end? Memmo. As I live, the very idea makes me shake as if I had a fever. It's very likely that Abellino should suffer himself to be caught! Contarino. Pray inform me, signors, have any of you ever met this Abellino face to face? Several Noblemen at once. Not I. Never. A Senator. He is a kind of spectre, who only appears now and then, when he is least expected and desired.
He was silent, and abandoned himself to the melancholy recollections which thronged before his mind's eye. Everything around him was so calm, so silent! Not a single zephyr sighed among the blades of grass; but a storm raged in the bosom of Abellino. "Four years ago could I have believed that a time would come when I should play the part of a bravo in Venice!
I am a miserable wretch, and starving; give me an alms out of your booty! A Ruffian. An alms? Ha! ha! ha! By my soul that is whimsical! Alms from us, indeed! Oh, by all means! No doubt, you shall have alms in plenty. Abellino. Or else give me fifty sequins, and I'll bind myself to your service till I shall have worked out my debt. A Ruffian. Aye? and pray, then, who may you be? Abellino.
Kecskerey lavished his most delicate attentions upon the eminent stranger, conducting him into the society of the most charming women, his principal object therein being to relieve Abellino of this incubus. As for Abellino, he withdrew, meanwhile, with a few young bucks of his own age, into the card-room, where he was likely to pass the time most agreeably until the arrival of Fanny.
"I suppose he is looking up his patterns and making out his account," thought Abellino to himself; and meanwhile he began looking about him, wondering in which of the rooms this Philistine kept his little sugar-plum, and whether the girl had heard what he had just been saying.
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