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At the last, when the revolution has succeeded, he puts on the ducal purple and the people are ready to acquiesce in the new regime. But old Verrina is not so tractable. When he cannot prevail upon Fiesco to doff the hateful insignia, he pushes him into the sea and exclaims in disgust: 'I am going to Andrea!
"Yes; and I also wished to see Signor Stephano Verrina for another motive," exclaimed Manuel emphatically. "Ah! then you know me, my lord?" said the bandit. "And yet methought I was a stranger to you, although you were none to me at the casino." "You were a stranger until now," continued Orsini; "but Isaachar knew by the knock which you dealt so lustily on his door, who was his visitor."
VERRINA. That judgment makes me of my daughter vain. Sacco, Calcagno all unfrequent visitors I should fear the absence of Genoa's noblest ornaments were a proof that I had been deficient in hospitality. And here I greet a fifth guest, unknown to me, indeed, but sufficiently recommended by this worthy circle.
'She is an incarnate fiend, I thought, 'and admirably fitted to mate with the bandit captain. Such was my reflection then; and the lapse of a few hours has only served to strengthen the impression. You may now judge whether I have formed an unworthy attachment!" "She is worthy of you, captain!" exclaimed Lomellino. "Know you who she is?" "Not a whit," replied Stephano Verrina.
SCENE X. An apartment in the house of VERRINA. BERTHA on a couch, supporting her head on her hand VERRINA enters with a look of dejection. Heavens! He is here! My daughter affrighted at her father! BERTHA. Fly! fly! or let me fly! Father, your sight is dreadful to me! VERRINA. Dreadful to my child! my only child! Oh! you must seek another. I am no more your daughter.
Can death have robbed Verrina of a friend, and Fiesco not know the loss? VERRINA. Mournful tales ill suit Fiesco's joyful feasts. For whom must we both mourn? VRRRINA. Both! both! Oh, 'tis but too true we both should mourn yet not all sons lament their mother. FIESCO. 'Tis long since your mother was mingled with the dust.
JULIA, Countess dowager Imperiali, sister of the younger Doria, aged twenty-five; a proud coquette, in person tall and full, her beauty spoiled by affectation, with a sarcastic maliciousness in her countenance; her dress black. BERTHA, daughter of Verrina, an innocent girl. ROSA, | Maids of Leonora. Several Nobles, Citizens, Germans, Soldiers, Thieves. SCENE I. A Saloon in FIESCO'S House.
"But you promised to save her, signor!" he exclaimed, with enthusiastic warmth. "I gave this pledge in the manner described to your lordship," returned Verrina, "and I shall not swerve from it." "Think you that her liberation can be effected?" demanded Manuel.
"Fool dolt!" cried the marquis, terribly excited; "do you not see that she herself is menaced with ruin that the villain Stephano must have kept the diamonds for himself? that is, granting your tale to be true " At this moment there was an authoritative knock at the house-door. "This is Stephano Verrina himself!" exclaimed the Jew. "I know his manner of knocking with the rude handle of his sword.
Let Gianettino be the duke, affairs of state shall ne'er lie heavy on our heads. VERRINA. Fiesco! Is that truly and seriously your meaning? FIESCO. Andreas adopts his nephew as a son, and makes him heir to his estates; what madman will dispute with him the inheritance of his power? Away, then, Genoese! FIESCO. Verrina! Verrina! Oh, this republican is as hard as steel! FIESCO. A MASK entering.
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