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"Well, well?" cried the marquis, impatiently; for his heart began to grow sick with the fear of disappointment in respect to his plan of obtaining the diamonds of his mistress. "And Stephano Verrina took them from me basely, vilely, wrenched them as it were from my grasp!" continued the Jew.
"Isaachar speaks naught save the pure truth," remarked Orsini, blushing at the justice which dictated these reproaches against the aristocracy whereof he was a member. "Signor Verrina," he continued, "you are a brave man and I believe you to be a generous one. Confirm this opinion on my part, by refraining from further molestation toward the Jew, and thou wilt doubly render me thy debtor."
If we accent a different set of passages, we are sure that it is a drama of republican idealism, sorely tempted by autocratic ambition, but destined to triumph finally over the baser motive. In the one view Verrina is a virtuous patriot; in the other he is a mad fanatic who does not understand the greatness of his chief.
The twelfth I write at my own risk, unless our mortal enemy be overlooked. GIANETTINO. The end crowns all Joseph Verrina. LOMELLINO. He is the very head of the viper that threatens us. 'Tis done. Two days hence will be the ducal election. When the senate shall be assembled for that purpose these twelve shall, on the signal of a handkerchief, be suddenly laid low.
At nine precisely let all be at my palace to hear my final orders. VERRINA. I take the harbor. BOURGOGNINO. I the soldiers. CALCAGNO. I will learn the watchword. SACCO. I will reconnoitre Genoa. Did they not struggle against the word subordination as the worm against the needle which transfixes it? But 'tis too late, republicans. My lord
The bells must toll, the citizens be called upon to side with us, and vindicate the liberties of Genoa. If Fortune favor us, you shall hear the rest in the senate. VERRINA. The plan is good. Now for the distribution of our parts. Genoese, you chose me, of your own accord, as chief of the conspiracy. Will you obey my further orders? VERRINA. As certainly as they shall be the best.
"In truth, I am not sorry to have found a good excuse to quit a mode of life which the headsman yearns to cut short. Not that I reck for peril; but, methinks, twenty years of danger and adventure ought to be succeeded by a season of tranquillity." "Love has a marvelous influence over you, Signor Verrina," said the marquis; "for love alone could have inspired such sentiments in your breast."
Is he who threatens the overthrow of liberty or he who has it in his power the greater tyrant? VERRINA. The first I hate, I fear the latter. Let Andreas Doria fall! Andreas? The old Andreas! who perhaps to-morrow may pay the debt of nature SACCO. Andreas? That mild old man! FIESCO. Formidable is that old man's mildness, O my friend the brutality of Gianettino only deserves contempt.
Wagner was therefore his rival; and Verrina did not consider it at all in accordance with his own particular views in respect to Nisida, to aid in effecting that rival's liberation, should he be condemned by the tribunal.
Great God, support me! How his words falter! His whole frame trembles! VERRINA. I cannot comprehend it. Tell me, my daughter who? BERTHA. Compose yourself, my best, my dearest father! For God's sake who? BERTHA. A mask No! What a fool am I to think that all the poison of my life can flow but from one source! BERTHA. Taller. His hair? Black, and curled? BERTHA. As black as jet and curled?
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