I answer to no one
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— Tive ordem para haver-me com toda a rapidez; e creio, senhor, continuou fitando no italiano um olhar severo, que não devo contas de minhas acções senão áquelles a quem dei o direito de pedil-as.
“I had orders to make all speed; and I believe, sir,” he went on, fixing a stern look on the Italian, “that I owe account of my actions to none but those to whom I have given the right to demand it.”
“I had orders to make all speed; and I believe, sir,” he went on, fixing a stern look on the Italian, “that I owe account of my actions to none but those to whom I have given the right to demand it.”
Álvaro drops the banter and pulls rank: a cold, clear rebuke that he answers to his superiors, not to a hired mercenary's curiosity. The stern look and the formal phrasing draw a line Loredano has been deliberately crossing.
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