What had he ever done to me that I should loose upon him such a swarm of ignominies.

I felt humiliated and ashamed before him, an honourable man who had been treated like a rogue on my account.
'I shall not survive these insults, well I know it.

I shall die,' he kept lamenting.

'All my people know the way I have been treated--like a dog.' I told him that there had been a misunderstanding, and that the shame which he had suffered had been all my fault, because I had been absent for my selfish pleasure at the moment when I might have saved him by a simple statement of the facts.
'I shall not easily recover,' the chief groaned.

'And then that debt which I was so delighted to pay off is once again upon my shoulders.' I explained then that the Consul's stopping of the sale was not conclusive, but provisional; his only stipulation being that, before I paid, all the legal formalities necessary to the transfer should have been fulfilled.
'He asks no more than that your Excellency will condescend to go before the Caimmacam with witnesses, and have a proper title-deed made out.' At those words, uttered in all innocence, the great man shuddered violently and his face went green.