They all knew Captain Ferragut, because of the affair at Marseilles, and they were talking about his person with gloomy reticence.
"Through them I learned of your arrival," she continued.

"They are spying upon you, waiting for a favorable moment.

Who knows if they have not already followed you here ?...

Ulysses, flee; your life is seriously threatened." The captain again shrugged his shoulders with an expression of disgust.
"Flee, I repeat it!...

And if you can, if I arouse in you a little compassion, if you are not completely indifferent to me ...