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By the name of Doria! You shall be procurator. What talk you of nobility in Genoa? Let them all throw their ancestry and honors into the scale, one hair from the white beard of my old uncle will make it kick the beam. It is my will that you be procurator, and that is tantamount to the votes of the whole senate. The damsel is the only daughter of one Verrina.

FIESCO, Count of Lavagna, chief of the conspiracy, a tall, handsome young man, twenty-three years of age; his character is that of dignified pride and majestic affability, with courtly complaisance and deceitfulness. VERRINA, a determined republican, sixty years of age; grave, austere, and inflexible: a marked character.

"A thousand thanks, Signor Verrina," replied the marquis; "but I must remain at Florence to prove the innocence of that poor, persecuted Jew." Stephano offered no further remonstrance; and the conversation which ensued possessed not the least interest for our readers.

VERRINA. And yet 'tis cheerfulness itself to the gloom that enwraps my soul. Follow me to yon churchyard, where corruption preys on the mouldering remnants of mortality, and death holds his fearful banquet where shrieks of damned souls delight the listening fiends, and sorrow weeps her fruitless tears into the never-filling urn.

If they feel thy wrongs they will expiate them with blood. Be not astonished, friends! He who tramples upon Genoa may easily overcome a helpless female. Gianettino Doria! Cover me, walls, beneath your ruins! My Scipio! BOURGOGNINO the former. Rejoice, my love! I bring good tidings. Noble Verrina, my heaven now depends upon a word from you.

Have I not risked everything for thee?" "I do not reproach you, Giulia," he replied, pressing his hand to his brow, "but I am unhappy miserable!" And he flung himself upon the nearest ottoman. "Oh! what has occurred to distract thee thus?" exclaimed the countess, forgetting the presence of Stephano Verrina in the all-absorbing interest of her lover's evident grief.

"Be kind enough to bind it with my scarf, Signor Verrina, and let us continue in a more peaceful manner the discourse which has been somewhat rudely interrupted." Isaachar, however, supplied water in an ewer, and linen bandages; and the old man, forgetting the object of Manuel's predatory visit to his abode, hastened himself to wash and bind up the wounded arm.

That name belongs alone to the father of my betrothed bride. Dost thou know the house of Verrina? BERTHA. I should think so. And knowest thou his lovely daughter? BERTHA. Her name is Bertha. BOURGOGNINO. Go, quickly! Carry her this ring. Say it shall be our wedding-ring; and tell her the blue crest fights bravely. Now farewell! I must hasten yonder. The danger is not yet over. Scipio!

The Jew having replaced the chains and fastened the huge bolts which protected the house-door, took up the lamp and led the way to a small and meanly-furnished room at the back of his dwelling. "What business may have brought you hither to-night, good Captain Verrina?" he inquired in a tone of ill-subdued apprehension.

The count's a man of honor. ZIBO. We are sold! betrayed! The comedy was a bait, and we're caught in a trap. ASSERATO. Heaven forbid! And yet I tremble for the event. The former VERRINA, SACCO, and NOBLES. SENTINELS. Who goes there? VERRINA. Friends of the house. ZIBO. These are his confidants. Now all will be explained. 'Tis as I told you; Lascaro is on guard at the St.