'Will you take me as your servant? I will be very faithful.'
'Do you ask me that?' I said. 'Do you not know--'
'Ah, yes! you took the life that he was glad to lose. It was almost a
kindness; and now you bury him peacefully, and for that I love you. You
owe it to me; you have robbed me of a master, give me another.'
'No, poor friend! I want no servants now. I too am like a wreck that
drifts aimlessly across the seas. With me, too, it is finished.'
I looked once more at Giulia, and then I replaced the white cloth, and
the faces were covered.
'Bring me my horse, Fabio.'
In a few minutes it was waiting for me.
'Will you have no one to accompany you?' he asked.
'No one!'