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I am rejoiced to hear that all my great efforts to teach the fleet were not in vain. I don't like this hanging, Mr. Italian." "S'nore, you show a kind heart, and will one day reap the reward of such generous feelings. I wish I knew the name of so humane a gentleman, that I might mention him in my prayers." "They'll never fancy that Captain Rule said that," muttered Ithuel, grinning.
Now, tell these signori all you know about that said lugger; where you saw her; when you saw her; and what she was about. Keep your mind clear and tell us one thing at a time." "S'nore, si. I will keep my mind clear and tell you no more than one thing at a time.
"Well, then, eccellenza, the lugger was near the Island of Capri, on the side next the Mediterranean, which you know, S'nore, is on the side opposite to the bay and near, as might be, abreast of the house of Giacomo Alberti does your eccellenza know anything of the house I mean?" "Not I; but tell your story as if I knew all about it. It is these particulars which give value to a tale.
Remember that honorable signori will hear what you say; therefore, for your own credit, speak to the point; and speak nothing but truth, for the love of God." "Then, S'nore, first as to where I saw her does your eccellenza mean where I was at the time, or where the lugger was?" "Where the lugger was, fellow. Dost think Sir Kooffe cares where thou spent thy day!"
"Si si I know what you mean now, S'nore; there has been a vessel like that you mention off the island; for I saw her with my own eyes si si. It was about the twenty-third hour last evening a lugger, and we all said she must be French by her wicked looks." "Raoul!" said Ghita, as if reproaching him for an indiscretion.
"Aye but the Turks are now your allies, like us English. Have you seen any other strangers?" "They tell me there are ships from the far north, too, S'nore, off the town. Russians, I believe, they call them." "They, too, are allies; but I mean enemies. Has there not been a lugger seen off your island within the last day or two a lugger of the French?"
"S'nore, si," answered Raoul, adopting the patois of the country as well as he could and disguising his deep mellow voice by speaking on a high shrill key. "Boatmen of Capri, that have been to Napoli with wine, and have been kept out later than we intended by the spectacle at the yard-arm of the Minerva.
He was also now aware that this was he boat which had left the Proserpine about noon. "I can tell you there was not, s'nore if that will gladden your heart. A man was all ready to be hanged, when Captain Cuffe was pleased to order him taken down." "Just as three heavy guns were fired up at town was it not so?" Clinch eagerly inquired. "Diable! this man may have been my preserver, after all!
The silver ducat of Naples is worth 80 grani, or rather less than 80 cents: the golden ducat, or sequin, of Italy, Holland, Turkey, etc., is worth a trifle more than two American dollars. Raoul was offered the former. "S'nore, si; your eccellenza says the truth; a good ducat certainly deserves good services." "Bene.
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