Rogue and no rogue, is the Republic's motto.

Here they are as close in justice as a father amid his children; and there it is better that what is done should be done at midnight.

I like not the contradiction, for just as my hopes are a little raised by what I have witnessed, perhaps a little too near, they are all blown to the winds by such a frown as San Gennero himself might cast upon a sinner." "Remember thou art not in thy wide Mediterranean, but on a canal of Venice.

This language might be unsafe, were it heard by less friendly ears." "I thank thee for thy care, though the sight of yonder old palace is as good a hint to the loose tongue as the sight of a gibbet on the sea-shore to a pirate.

I met an ancient fellow in the Piazzetta about the time the masquers came in, and we had some words on this matter.