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Updated: June 21, 2025
"To-morrow? Are you then certain that I shall not be placed under arrest?" "Yes, for I know that the general is a man of honour." "I am of the same opinion. Well, let us go on board your felucca. We will embark together after midnight." "Why not now?" "Because I will not run the risk of spending the night on board M. Foscari's bastarda.
"I will follow you, if you will give me your word of honour to land me free in Corfu." "I have orders to deliver your person to M. Foscari, on board the bastarda." "Well, you shall not execute your orders this time." "If you do not obey the commands of the general, his honour will compel him to use violence against you, and of course he can do it.
My janissaries, to whom I gave a week's pay, insisted upon escorting me, fully equipped, as far as the boat, which made the adjutant laugh all the way. We reached Corfu by eight o'clock in the morning, and we went alongside the 'bastarda.
I had, as a matter of course, to engross all conversation, and to give the fullest particulars of all that had taken place from the moment I received the order to place myself under arrest up to the time of my release from the 'bastarda'. M. Foscari was seated next to me, and the last part of my narrative was not, I suppose, particularly agreeable to him.
I had been in the coffee-house for half an hour when the general's adjutant came to tell me that his excellency ordered me to put myself under arrest on board the bastarda, a galley on which the prisoners had their legs in irons like galley slaves. The dose was rather too strong to be swallowed, and I did not feel disposed to submit to it. "Very good, adjutant," I replied, "it shall be done."
"To-morrow? Are you then certain that I shall not be placed under arrest?" "Yes, for I know that the general is a man of honour." "I am of the same opinion. Well, let us go on board your felucca. We will embark together after midnight." "Why not now?" "Because I will not run the risk of spending the night on board M. Foscari's bastarda.
You have disobeyed the order I brought you to go to the 'bastarda; in that you have acted wrongly, and in that alone, for in every other respect you were perfectly right, the general himself says so." "Then I ought to have put myself under arrest?" "Certainly; obedience is necessary in our profession." "Would you have obeyed, if you had been in my place?"
"You may go alone, if you like; but I will not leave this place until I have the certainty, not only that I shall not be sent to the 'bastarda', but also that I shall have every satisfaction from the knave whom the general ought to send to the galleys." "Be reasonable, and come with me of your own accord.
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