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Updated: June 24, 2025
You have heard that Lomellino that Manfrone " "I know all," answered Flodoardo, with a melancholy air. "Satan has burst his chains, and now inhabits Venice under the name of Abellino, robbing me of all that my soul holds precious.
How Abellino received this noble disposition to stretch out the right hand of fellowship and forgiveness, we shall see presently. Master Jock could scarce await the dawn of St. John Baptist's Day; he was as delighted as a child who knows that some long-wished-for amusement awaits him.
In four-and- twenty hours will I produce in this very palace this dreaded bravo, Abellino." Andreas shook his head. "Young man," said he, "be less confident in your promises; I shall have more faith in your performance." Let things terminate as they may, either I will keep my word, or never again will cross the threshold of your palace.
Falieri. Is Abellino already in this palace? Flodoardo. He is. Vitalba. Then why do you not produce him? Why do you trifle so long with our impatience? Flodoardo. Be patient. It's now time that the play should begin. Be seated, noble Andreas. Let all the rest arrange themselves behind the Doge. Abellino's coming!
Noble Andreas, give me your hand, and pledge your princely word that, Abellino once in your power, nothing shall prevent me from being Rosabella's husband. Andreas. I swear it; deliver into my power, either alive or dead, this most dangerous foe of Venice, and nothing shall prevent Rosabella from being your wife. In pledge of which I here give you my princely hand.
But if their consternation was great at thus losing the destined instruments of their designs, how extravagant was their joy when the proud Abellino dared openly to declare to Venice that he still inhabited the Republic, and that he still wore a dagger at the disposal of Vice.
For the girl was frightfully modest, she said, and she had to make her believe that the gentleman really meant to make her his wife, and had said so all along. Abellino, in his joy, could scarce restrain himself from embracing the duenna at intervals, during the course of her entertaining narrative, especially when she told him what a splendid picture she had drawn of him to Fanny.
"A hundred sequins," exclaimed the incensed Doge, on reading the paper, "a hundred sequins to him who discovers this monster Abellino, and a thousand to him who delivers him up to justice." But in vain did spies ransack every lurking place in Venice; no Abellino was to be found.
Abellino heeded her not; he placed himself at the table, and ate and drank as if he would have satisfied himself for the next six months. The banditti eyed him with looks of satisfaction, and congratulated each other on such a valuable acquisition.
Andreas gazed with looks of horror on this model for demons, and at length stammered out with difficulty, "It cannot be real; I must surely be the sport of some terrible dream." "Without there, guards!" exclaimed the Cardinal Gonzaga, and would have hastened to the folding doors, when Abellino put his back against them, snatched a pistol from his girdle, and pointed it at the Cardinal's bosom.
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