You may carry Maria Polani off, but you will never succeed through her in obtaining a portion of her father's fortune, for I know that, the first moment her hands are free, she will stab herself to the heart, rather than remain in the power of such a wretch." Ruggiero snatched up a dagger from a table by his couch as Francis was speaking, but dropped it again.
"Fool," he said.

"Am I not going to carry off the two girls?
and do you not see that it will tame Maria's spirit effectually, when she knows that if she lays hands on herself, she will but shift the honour of being my wife from herself to her sister ?" As the laugh of anticipated triumph rang in Francis's ears, the latter, in his fury, made a spring forward to throw himself upon the villain, but he had forgotten his chains, and fell headlong on to the floor.
"Guards," Ruggiero shouted, "take this fellow away, and I charge you watch over him securely, and remember that your lives shall answer for his escape." "There is no need for threats, signor," Philippo said.

"You can rely on our vigilance, though, as far as I see, if he had but a child to watch him he would be safe in that cell of his, fettered as he is." Ruggiero waved his hand impatiently, and the two men withdrew with their prisoner.
"If it were not that I have not touched my share of the booty of our last trip," Philippo said as they left the house, "I would not serve him another day.

As it is, as soon as the galley returns, and we get our shares of the money, and of the sum he has promised if this expedition of his is successful, I will be off.

I have had enough of this.