"You are a great lady and I am only an ignorant seaman." "I do not mean anything of the sort, Ruggiero," said Beatrice quickly, for she saw that she had unintentionally hurt him, and the thought pained her strongly.

"You speak very well and I have always understood you perfectly.

But you spoke of the King's Children and I could not make out what they had to do with the story." "Oh, if it is that, Excellency, I ask your pardon.

I do not wonder that you did not understand.

It is my name, Excellency." "Your name?
Still I do not understand---" "I have no other name but that--dei figli del Re--" said Ruggiero.