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Abellino received the instrurasped the weapons, of what immense sums must your

robberies haveand offended, "ast us

robbery is unknown What? Dost take us for common plunderers, for

mere thieves, cut-purses, housebreakers, and villains of that low,

miserable sta worse; for,

to speak openly, Matteo, villains of that sta a purse or a casket, which can easily be filled again;

but that which we take from others is a jehich a man never has

but once, and which stolen can never be replaced Are we not, then,

a thousand times more atrocious plunderers?"

"By the house at Loretto, I think you have a mind to moralise,

Abellino?"

"Hark ye, Matteo, only one question At the Day of Judghest, the thief or the assassin?"

"Ha! ha! ha!"

"Think not that Abellino speaks thus from want of resolution Speak

but the word, and I murder half the senators of Venice; but still--"

"Fool! know, the bravothe nurse's

antiquated tales of vice and virtue What is virtue? What is vice?

Nothing but such things as forovernment, custom, manners, and

education have made sacred: and that which men are able to make

honourable at one time, it is in their power to make dishonourable

at another, whenever the huive opinions freely respecting the politics of