But with Vito Viti he incurred little risk on this score, provincial credulity and a love of the marvellous coming in aid of his general ignorance, to render him a safe depository of anything of this sort that the other might choose to advance.

Vito Viti felt it to be an honor to converse with a man who, in his turn, had conversed with a king; and as he puffed his way up the steep ascent again he did not fail to express some of the feelings which were glowing in his breast.
"Is it not a happiness to serve such a prince ?" he exclaimed--"nay, to die for him!" "The latter is a service I have not yet performed," answered Raoul, innocently, "but which may one day well happen.

Do you not think, podesta, that he who lays down his life for his prince merits canonization ?" "That would fill the calendar too soon, in these wars, Signor Smees; but I will concede you the generals and admirals, and other great personages.

Si--a general or an admiral who dies for his sovereign does deserve to be made a saint--this would leave these miserable French republicans, Signore, without hope or honor!" "They are _canaille_ from the highest to the lowest, and can reasonably expect nothing better.

If they wish to be canonized, let them restore the Bourbons, and put themselves lawfully in the way of such a blessing.
The chase of this morning, Signor Vito Viti, must at least have amused the town ?" The podesta wanted but this opening to pour out a history of his own emotions, sensations, and raptures.