But since getting to know Tancredi during the period after Garibaldi’s landing, he had found himself dealing, unexpectedly, with a young noble as cynical as himself, capable of striking a sharp bargain between his own smiles and titles and the attractions and fortunes of others, while knowing how to dress up such “Sedàraish” actions with a grace and fascination which he, Don Calogero, felt he did not himself possess, but which influenced him without his realizing it and without his being able in any way to discern its origins.
