"Well, Toro, I am sure I don't want to quarrel with anyone, except Harkaway."
"Curse him! and especially that American."
"Hush! let your curses be not loud but deep; you'll awake the town if you swear so."
"Have I not good cause to? Has he not beaten and put me to shame?"
"And have I not suffered equal pain and shame? Yet I am content to bide my time; you should have patience, Toro."
"Come, come to business, my friends," said Captain Mathias; "there is the house where our foe resides. How are we to proceed?"
"Quietly; hush!" said Hunston. "Confound it, how still the air is; the whole street seems to echo back the lightest whisper."
"Let me get once inside, and I care not if all the street hears," muttered Toro.
"Which proves you care not if you are unsuccessful," said the Greek.
"How so?"