My Dear Fellow

“My dear fellow, " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; 

we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barreled shotguns. 

Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him - 

we bring him back to Rome, and present him to his holiness the Pope, 

who asks how he can repay so great a service; 

Then we merely ask for a carriage and a pair of horses, 

and we will see the Carnival in the carriage, 

and doubtless, the Roman people will crown us at the capitol, 

and proclaim us, like Curtius and the veiled Horatius, 

the preservers of there country." 

Whilst Albert proposed this scheme, 

Signor Pastrini's face assumed an expression impossible to describe.” 

~ Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo