The Committee could no longer hesitate: I myself renounced the hopes which I had based upon a grand manifestation, upon a powerful reply to the coup d'état, upon a sort of pitched battle waged by the guardians of the Republic against the banditti of the Elysée.

"It is to be hoped, Mademoiselle, there are no banditti in America," said Eve, as they looked around them at the novel situation in which they were placed, apparently by a pure caprice of her cousin.

She is entirely destitute of the power to maintain peace upon her borders or to prevent the incursions of banditti into our territory.

He would let loose a banditti against the most weak and defenceless of the sex.

The foreigners do not take matters so quietly, and there is scarcely an English or American traveller in the country who has not come to blows in a personal encounter with the banditti at some period or other of his adventures.

Sicily is one of those romantic countries, where you may still meet with adventures in your travels, where you may be shot at by banditti with pointed hats and long guns.