Chapter

 1 1|      on account of the sins of man, and especially those of
 2 2|        which we are speaking a man of forty-four or forty-five
 3 4|   named Guerra: he was a young man of twenty-five or twenty-six,
 4 4| neither his wife nor any other man's. Guerra demanded what
 5 4|       and the close-fisted old man had left him, with his wife
 6 5|      when the death of the old man had placed his wife and
 7 5|    women, supping with the old man, mixed some narcotic with
 8 5| assassins, "to kill a poor old man in his sleep. At the thought
 9 5|  enough to kill a sleeping old man? How would it be if he were
10 5|       tranquil face of the old man, the sight of whose white
11 5|    upright over one of the old man's eyes; the other struck
12 5|        They hoped that the old man's death would be attributed
13 6|      monsignor was a most wary man, and very difficult to catch
14 6|        a poniard, but Marzio's man unfortunately arrived at
15 6|   heard of this opportunely. A man of infinite resource, he
16 6|      says he has never found a man proof against this torture;
17 6|      or an eminent and learned man. ~     ~ ~
18 8|    Cardinal di San Marcello, a man of much acumen and great
19 8|     Marchese di Santa Croce, a man seventy years of age, by
20 8|      told them that, judged by man, they must now prepare to