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Verrina is lost in thought. BOURGOGNINO. Patience! I have a word to say, which will more quickly rouse him than the trumpet of the last day. Awake! Thy Bertha will despair. VERRINA. Who spoke those words? Genoese, to arms! FIESCO. Think on the means of forwarding our plan. Night has advanced upon our discourse; Genoa is wrapped in sleep; the tyrant sinks exhausted beneath the sins of the day.
'Truly have I, responded Antonio. 'You remember that night when you, with Stephano Verrina and Piero, got into the Riverola Palace some months ago? Well, I don't know who discovered the plot, but I was locked in my room, and next morning young Francisco dismissed me in a way that made me his mortal enemy: and I must have vengeance.
A jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. But you! You looked like a mute at a funeral. Who could have thought that the austere Verrina should in his old age become such a wag! SACCO. Come, Verrina. He never will be ours. FIESCO. Be merry, brother.
Thus speaking, the lieutenant produced from beneath his cloak a heavy bag of gold; and Isaachar, now considerably relieved of his apprehensions, led the way into the apartment where he had received the Marquis of Orsini and Stephano de Verrina during the past night. "Hast thou heard my message, Israelite?" demanded the lieutenant. "Yes, yes; and his lordship is a worthy man an estimable man.
"Think you that I shall betray the secrets of your dwelling, wherever and whatever it may be?" "I entertain no such base suspicion," returned Verrina. "But we banditti are governed by a code of laws which none of us not even I, the chief dare violate.
VERRINA. What, does my tenderness distress you? BERTHA. It weighs me down to the earth. VERRINA. How, my daughter! do you receive me thus? Formerly, when I came home, my heart o'erburdened with sorrows, my Bertha came running towards me, and chased them away with her smiles. Come, embrace me, my daughter!
A noisy allegro, during which the back scene opens, and discovers a grand illuminated saloon, many masks dancing. At the side, drinking and playing tables, surrounded with company. GIANETTINO, almost intoxicated, LOMELLINO, ZIBO, ZENTURIONE, VERRINA, CALCAGNO, all masked. Several other nobles and ladies. Bravo! Bravo! These wines glide down charmingly. The dancers perform a merveille.
"Good, my lord!" exclaimed Verrina, flinging himself upon the ottoman which the Jew had ere now occupied; "there is not in all Florence a man whom I would rather have encountered than yourself."
The heavy grief that hung upon your brow when first you bade me follow you still seems to labor in your panting breast. Break this dreadful silence! Speak. I will go no further. VERRINA. This is the place. BOURGOGNINO. You could not choose a spot more awful. Father, if the deed you purpose be like the place father my hair will stand on end with horror.
FIESCO. Did you suppose the lion slept because he ceased to roar? Did your vain thoughts persuade you that none but you could feel the chains of Genoa? That none but you durst break them? Before you knew their weight, Fiesco had already broken them. What now is wanting to rouse the tyrant in his lair? Tell me, what think you wanting? VERRINA. Fiesco, my spirit bends to thine, but my knee cannot.
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