I feel as if I had not quite finished my night's rest, and the days pass so slowly here that it is as well for us to sleep when we feel the least inclination.
"By the way, Matteo, put something into that peephole we made.

It is possible that they might see the light through it, and come to examine what it is.

It is better to run no risk." That day the captives were far more restless than they had been since they were taken prisoners.

At first there had been a feeling of depression, too great to admit even of conversation with each other.
The defeat of their fleet, the danger that threatened Venice, and the prospect of imprisonment in the gloomy dungeons of Genoa, combined to depress them on the first day of their imprisonment.

On the second, their success in getting out the bolts had cheered them, and they had something to look forward to and talk about; but still, few of them thought that there was any real prospect of their obtaining their freedom.