I dream only of you.

I care not what is going on in the whole world so long as I only know what is happening to you.

I know that you love me and that you are mine so long as you are here.

But how often you are far away! How often I do not see you for weeks, for months at a time! Then I get nearly mad.

I am determined to find out where you are and what you are doing, with whom you are speaking and then I say, I feel quite mad." "Indeed! Then let me tell you, my dear girl, that it would do you no good to know where I am, for I am much more exposed to the fire of pointed rifles than to the fire of pretty eyes." "Are you then a robber chieftain, a mountain smuggler ?" "I am a lot of things." "Then take me with you into your band"-- she spoke with heaving bosom.
But Fatia Negra stamped his foot.
"It cannot be, Anicza," said he; "think no more of it! I will never take you with me." "Why not ?" asked the girl and her eyes flashed like a wild cat's.
"Because then I should become jealous of you and that would be bad for us both.