text:  I killed him at one stab but the devil possessed me to give him another _colpo di coltello_ after he had fallen; and as the judges asked me _why_ I did this and I could not perfectly satisfy them they concluded I was a sanguinary fellow and gave me eighteen years galleys--but as you see I have no chains; nor ever had--_mai! mai_!" and he extended his hands in somewhat of the attitude of Raphael's _Paul before Festus_ to suit the action to the word