Why should you be rewarded?
MARINELLI.
For having risked my life on the venture. Finding that neither raillery nor reason could induce the Count to sacrifice his love to honour, I tried to rouse his anger. I said things to him which made him forget himself. He used insulting expressions, and I demanded satisfaction--yes, satisfaction on the spot. One of us must fall, thought I. Should it be his fate, the field is ours--should it be mine--why, he must fly, and the Prince will at least gain time.
PRINCE.
Did you act thus, Marinelli?
MARINELLI.
Yes; he, who is ready to sacrifice his life for princes, ought to learn beforehand how grateful they are likely to be.
PRINCE.
And the Count? Report says that he is not the man to wait till satisfaction is a second time demanded.