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Well, well, with all my heart, when YOU are in the humour, perhaps I may not have the inclination. Baluzzo. Death and the devil, Abellino, is this a time for talking nonsense? Prithee keep such trash for a fitter occasion, and let us consider what we are to do just now. Pietrino. Nay, this is no season for trifling. Struzza.
Look to yourselves, my lads." And in the same instant he collected his forces together, threw the gigantic Matteo over his head as had he been an infant, knocked Struzza down on the right hand, and Pietrino on the left, tumbled Thomaso to the end of the room head over heels, and stretched Baluzzo without animation upon the neighbouring benches.
And from this day forth I vote that Thomaso should be our captain. Struzza. Aye, in Matteo's stead. All. Right, right. Abellino. To which I say amen with all my heart. Now, then, all is decided.
The four banditti, whom Flodoardo had seized, Pietrino, Struzza, Baluzza, and Thomaso, had been safely committed to the Doge's dungeons, where they underwent a daily examination, and looked upon every sun that rose as the last that would ever rise for THEM. Andreas and his confidential counsellors now flattered themselves that the public tranquillity had nothing more to apprehend, and that Venice was now completely purified of the miscreants, whom gold could bribe to be the instruments of revenge and cruelty; when all at once the following address was discovered, affixed to most of the remarkable statues, and pasted against the corners of the principal streets, and pillars of the public buildings:
Yes, yes! there's no doubt about his trade, you may depend on't. Cinthia. The gibbet! Poor dear Matteo! Thomaso. This is a fine piece of work. Baluzzo. Confound the fellow, who would have thought of anything happening so unlucky? Abellino. Why, how now? You seem to be overcome. Struzza. I cannot recover myself; surprise and terror have almost stupefied me. Abellino. Indeed!
By my life, when I heard the news I burst into laughter. "Signor Matteo," said I, "I wish your worship joy of your safe arrival." Thomaso. What? Struzza. You laughed? Hang me if I can see what there is to laugh at. Abellino. Why, surely you are not afraid of receiving what you are so ready to bestow on others? What is your object?
"Struzza, Thomaso, Pietrino, Baluzza, and Matteo, five as brave men as the world ever produced, who, had they stood at the head of armies, would have been called HEROES, and now being called BANDITTI, are fallen victims to the injustice of State policy.
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