The money was returned to his purse, but his distrust and doubts were by no means removed.
"Answer me one thing, Signor Bolto," asked the vice-governatore, after a minute of thought; "if you hate the English so much, why do you serve in their ships?
why not quit them on the first good occasion?
The land is as wide as the sea, and you must be often on it." "I calculate, Signor Squire, you don't often study charts, or you wouldn't fall into such a consait.

There's twice as much water as solid ground on this 'airth, to begin with; as in reason there ought to be, seeing that an acre of good productive land is worth five or six of oceans; and then you have little knowledge of my character and prospects to ask such a question.

I sarve the king of England to make him pay well for it.

If you want to take an advantage of a man, first get him in debt; then you can work your will on him in the most profitable and safe manner!" All this was unintelligible to the vice-governatore, who, after a few more questions and answers, took a civil leave of the strangers, intimating to Benedetta that they were not to follow him back into the room he had just quitted.
As for Ithuel, the disappearance of the two gentlemen gave him no concern; but as he felt that it might be unsafe to drink any more wine, he threw down his reckoning, and strolled into the street, followed by his companion.

Within an hour from that moment, the three kegs of tobacco were in the possession of a shopkeeper of the place, that brief interval sufficing to enable the man to make his bargain, and to deliver the articles, which was his real object on shore.