What I said was only a jest.

To-morrow, Julio, you will leave my service.

You are a liar and a coward." "Do not condemn me so severely, signor," said the servant, in a supplicating tone of voice.

"I am willing to risk my life a thousand times for you; but to lie in wait for an unknown man and kill him deliberately--this is an infamous crime of which I am not capable." "Hypocrite!" exclaimed Simon Turchi; "you speak as though I were ignorant of your past history.

If a price is set upon your head in the city of Lucca, if at this moment you are under sentence of death, is it not because you assassinated or helped to assassinate the Judge Voltai ?" These words struck Julio with terror.