"You have got so thin," said he, "that uncharitable people will be rather hard on you."
"I trust they will not say that I have been passing my time with the
Jesuits."
"You are sarcastic. They may say, perhaps, that you have passed your time in a hot-house under the influence of Mercury."
"Don't be afraid, sir, for to escape this hasty judgment I shall go back this evening."
"No, no, I am quite sure you will not."
"Believe me, sir," said I, with a bantering tone, "that I deem your opinion of too much consequence not to be governed by it."
Seeing that I was in earnest, my friends were angry with him; and the
Aristarchus was in some confusion.
Righelini, who was one of Murray's intimate friends, said to me in a friendly way that he had been longing to tell Murray of my re-appearance, and of the falsity of all the reports about me.
"We will go to sup with him," said I, "and I will return after supper."
Seeing that M. de Bragadin and his two friends were uneasy about me, I promised to dine with them on April 25th, St. Mark's Day.