That they were the objects of suspicion, their captain had sufficiently warned them, and practice rendered them all good actors.

The time they remained in waiting for Raoul was consequently spent in eluding attempts to induce them to betray themselves, and in caricaturing Englishmen.

Two of the four folded their arms, endeavored to look surly, and paced the quay in silence, refusing even to unbend to the blandishments of the gentler sex, three or four of whom endeavored to insinuate themselves into their confidence by offerings of fruit and flowers.
"Amico," said Annunziate, one of the prettiest girls of her class in Porto Ferrajo, and who had been expressly employed by Vito Viti to perform this office, "here are figs from the main land.

Will you please to eat a few, that when you go back to Inghilterra you may tell your countrymen how we poor Elbans live ?" "Bad fig"-- sputtered Jacques, Raoul's cockswain, to whom this offering was made, and speaking in broken English; "better at 'ome.

Pick up better in ze street of Portsmout'!" "But, Signore, you need not look as if they would hurt you, or bite you; you can eat them and, take my word for it, you will find them as pleasant as the melons of Napoli!" "No melon good but English melon.