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I exceeded my intentions in that I carried off two prisoners instead of one. These prisoners," he ran on, judging that the moment of reaction in Asad's mind was entirely favourable to the preferment of the request he had to make, "are not in the bagnio with the others. They are still confined aboard the carack I seized." "And why is this?" quoth Asad, but without suspicion now.
They had been toiling all day at the stone-quarries in the mountains, and were now on their way, weary, ragged, and foot-sore, to the Bagnio, or prison, in which were housed the public slaves those not sold to private individuals, but retained by government and set to labour on the public works.
I mean de Paradise what comes arter it's ober, an' you 'gins to git well again. Hah! but you'll find it out some day. But, to continoo, you's got eberyt'ing what's comfrable here. If you on'y sawd de Bagnio slabes at work I'll take you to see 'em some day den you'll be content an' pleased wid your lot till de time comes when you escape." "Escape!
Catella, as is the wont of the jealous, hearkened to Ricciardo's words without so much as giving a thought to the speaker or his wiles, inclined at once to credit his story, and began to twist certain antecedent matters into accord with it; then, suddenly kindling with wrath, she answered that to the bagnio she would certainly go; 'twould cause her no great inconvenience, and if he should come, she would so shame him that he should never again set eyes on woman but his ears would tingle.
In a little while she would see Benedetto; the carriage stopped; the driver got out and opened the door. "Will you please step out? Here is the Bagnio." With trembling limbs, Madame Danglars left the coach, and slipping a few gold pieces into his hand, she said: "Make yourself comfortable in the nearest saloon; in about three hours we shall return home."
A convict has thought fit to free himself from the kindly care of the Bagnio attendants, and as the beautiful costume of the galley slaves is universally known, he has changed his toilet and thrown his cap, jacket and trousers to the winds." Madame Danglars became excited, but she kept silent. They soon reached the house at Oliolles. The church bell of the village struck eight o'clock.
Now in the house where the bagnio was she had a very dark chamber, for that no window gave thereon by which the light might enter. This chamber she made ready and spread a bed there, as best she might, wherein Ricciardo, as soon as he had dined, laid himself and proceeded to await Catella.
Jurien de la Gravière remarks: "Such was the fortune of war in the sixteenth century. A man leaving Naples to go to Spain might end his days in a Moorish bagnio and see his wife and daughters fall a prey to miscreants of the worse description."
"It is not for me to name their price, but for the buyers," he replied. "I might set the price too high, and that were unjust to thee, or too low, and that were unjust to others who would acquire them. Deliver them over to the bagnio." "It shall be done," said Sakr-el-Bahr, daring to insist no further and dissembling his chagrin.
This was sufficient to confirm my suspicions, and make me resolve either to make one of the party, or to disconcert it. It is believed that she was secretly married to the unfortunate Monsieur Cinqmars. "As the bagnio where I lodged was at a great distance from the Marais, as soon as the night set in I mounted my horse, without any attendant.
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