What, in your judgment, c an induce a Frenchman to appear before our town in so menacing a manner ?" "Cospetto! you might as well ask me, Signore, what induces these republicans to do a thousand other out-of-the-way things.

What has made them behead Louis XVI?
What has made them overrun half of your Italy, conquer Egypt, and drive the Austrians back upon their Danube ?" "To say nothing of their letting Nelsoni destroy them at Aboukir," added Vito Viti, with a grunt.
"True, Signore, or letting Nelson, my gallant countryman, annihilate them near the mouth of the Nile.

I did not consider it proper to boast of English glory, though that case, too, may very well be included.

We have several men in ze Ving-and-Ving who were in that glorious battle, particularly our sailing-master, Etooell Bolt, who was on board Nelson's own ship, having been accidentally sent on service from the frigate to which he properly belonged, and carried off expressly to share, as it might be, in the glory of this famous battle." "I have seen the Signore," dryly remarked Andrea Barrofaldi--"_e uno Americano ?_" "An American!" exclaimed Raoul, starting a little in spite of his assumed indifference of manner; "why, yes, I believe Bolt _was_ born in America--English America, you know, Signori, and that is much the same thing as having been born in England herself.

We look upon _ze Yankes_ as but a part of our own people, and take them into our service most cheerfully." "So the Signor Ituello has given us reason to believe; he is seemingly a great lover of the English nation." Raoul was uneasy; for he was entirely ignorant of all that had passed in the wine-house, and he thought he detected irony in the manner of the vice-governatore.
"Certainly, Signore," he answered, however, with unmoved steadiness; "certainly, Signore, the Americani adore Inghilterra; and well they may, considering all that great nation has done for them.