I was very glad myself, I can tell you; but I could not understand how Nino could have the heart to sing, or should lack heart so much as to be fit for it.

Before the evening he came home, silent and thoughtful.

I asked him whether he were not glad to be free so easily.
"That is not a very intelligent question for a philosopher like you to ask," he answered.

"Of course I am glad of my liberty; any man would be.

But I feel that I am as much the cause of that poor lady's death as though I had killed her with my own hands.