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To the observance of this code we are bound by an oath of so deadly so dreadful a nature, that bold and reckless as we are, we could not forget that. And I should alike break our laws and depart from my oath, were I to conduct an uninitiated stranger to our stronghold otherwise than blindfolded." "I offer no further opposition, Signor Verrina," said the marquis. "Fix on the bandage."
If they thus serve a foreign tyrant, how will they guard the princes of their country? SACCO. Numbers have flocked already to our standard, and all the gates are ours. CALCAGNO. I hear they still are fighting desperately at the citadel. SACCO. Bourgognino is amongst them. Where is Verrina?
"My lord good Signor Verrina in mercy not here I implore " ejaculated the Jew, speaking in a piteous tone, and wringing his hands in alarm at this hostile demonstration.
FIESCO. Verrina, dost thou know the principle of all warlike enterprise? Instruct him, Genoese. It is subordination. If your will be not subjected to mine observe me well if I be not the head of the conspiracy, I am no more a member. VERRINA. A life of freedom is well worth some hours of slavery. We obey. FIESCO. Then leave me now.
"That observation is hardly fair, Signor Verrina," said the young nobleman; "considering that my right arm is disabled, and that the wound was received in combat with yourself." "I crave your lordship's pardon," exclaimed the bandit-captain. "My remark was most uncourteous particularly to one who has ere now given no equivocal proof of his valor.
FIESCO. But do you see none? I should hope not! FIESCO. I ask, do you perceive none? None! FIESCO. See, then, how idle is the observation that power makes a tyrant. VERRINA. I grieve that I must return it coldly. The sight of majesty falls like a keen-edged weapon, cutting off all affection between the duke and me. To John Louis Fiesco belonged the territory of my heart.
VERRINA. Not so, my son Verrina will not wound thy heart with it. O Scipio, heavy burdens lie on me. A thought more dark and horrible than night, too vast to be contained within the breast of man! Mark me my hand alone shall execute the deed; but my mind cannot alone support the weight of it. If I were proud, Scipio, I might say greatness unshared is torture.
BERTHA. I beseech thee, say, on what dreadful project does my father brood? BOURGOGNINO. Didst thou understand thy father? BERTHA. He bade us fly. Merciful Heaven! Fly on our bridal day! BOURGOGNINO. He spoke it, and we must obey. FIESCO. Welcome, Verrina! I was anxious to meet thee. VERRINA. I also sought Fiesco. FIESCO. Does Verrina perceive no alteration in his friend? I wish for none.
Because her eagle glance, quicker than that of the man who is approaching her, has recognized him, ere he has even been struck with a suspicion relative to who she is and that man is Stephano Verrina! Now, Nisida! summon all thine energies to aid thee; for a strong, a powerful, a remorseless man, devoured with lust for thee, is near.
They look in silence on each other. Some horrid crime hangs on their trembling tongues. I conjure you, friends, mock not thus my reason. Is she pure? Is she truly so? Who answers for her? VERRINA. My child is guiltless. BOURGOGNINO. What! Violence! Where is the spoiler? VERRINA. Seek him in the plunderer of Genoa! Cursed the sleep that shall refresh thee!
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