“Then you did not hurt yourself?”
“No, for I fell purposely.”
“Purposely? Oh, to deceive me! I would never have believed you capable of that. It is not fair to win by fraud; therefore I have not lost the race.”
“Oh! yes, you have, for I reached the goal before you.”
“Trick for trick; confess that you tried to deceive me at the start.”
“But that is fair, and your trick is a very different thing.”
“Yet it has given me the victory, and
“Vincasi per fortund o per ingano,
Il vincer sempre fu laudabil cosa”...
“I have often heard those words from my brother, but never from my father. Well, never mind, I have lost. Give your judgment now, I will obey.”
“Wait a little. Let me see. Ah! my sentence is that you shall exchange your garters for mine.”