I wish to do whatever will give you pleasure, S'nore." "Neighbor Vito Viti," put in the vice-governatore, "it may be well to remember that this matter is not to be recorded as you would put on file the confessions of a thief; it may be better to let the honest boatman tell his story in his own way." "Aye, now the vecchy has set to work, I hope we shall get the worth of our ducat," observed Cuffe, in English.
"S'nori," rejoined Raoul, "it shall be just as your eccellenzi say.

The lugger you speak of was off the island last evening, steering toward Ischia; which place she must have reached in the course of the night, as there was a good land-wind from the twenty-third to the fifth hour." "This agrees with our account as to the time and place," said Griffin; "but not at all as to the direction the corsair was steering.

We hear she was rather rounding the southern cape for the Gulf of Salerno." Raoul started, and gave thanks mentally that he had come on board, as this statement showed that his enemies had received only too accurate information of his recent movements.

He had hopes, however, of being able yet to change their intentions and of putting them on a wrong scent.
"S'nori," he said, "I should like to know who it is that mistakes southeast for northwest.

None of our pilots or boatmen, I should think, could ever make so great a blunder.