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"Follow me, my lord," said the bandit-captain; "and I will conduct you to a place where you will find as dainty a couch as even a nobleman so accustomed to luxury as your lordship need not despise." Thus speaking Stephano opened an iron door at the end of the hall, and led the way along a narrow and low corridor, lighted by lamps placed in niches at short intervals.
The foul means were therefore resorted to an old woman, who had been the nurse of the countess in her infancy, and to whom in her distress she applied for advice, having procured for the patrician lady the services of Stephano Verrina, the bandit-captain.
"Deign to enter this humble apartment, my lord," said the Jew, at length, as he conducted the marquis into the same room where he had a few hours previously received the bandit-captain. "Isaachar," exclaimed Manuel, flinging himself upon a seat, "you behold a desperate man before you!"
He also was well-armed, but much more plainly dressed than the other; and his countenance was such as would not have proved a very friendly witness in his favor in a court of justice. "Lomellino?" said the first individual whom we have described in this chapter. "Captain Stephano!" responded the other. "All right, my fine lad," returned the bandit-captain. "Follow me."
In the brilliantly lighted apartment, to which we have already introduced our readers, the Countess Giulia receives her lover, the dissipated but handsome Marquis of Orsini; the bandit-captain is concealed behind the richly-worked tapestry; and at the door not the little private one of that room, an old man is listening; an old man whose ashy pale countenance, clinched hands, quivering white lips, and wildly rolling eyes indicate how terrible are the feelings which agitate within his breast.
"That observation is hardly fair, Signor Verrina," said the young nobleman; "considering that my right arm is disabled, and that the wound was received in combat with yourself." "I crave your lordship's pardon," exclaimed the bandit-captain. "My remark was most uncourteous particularly to one who has ere now given no equivocal proof of his valor.
"To-morrow night I have a little affair in hand for a reverend and holy father, who is sure to be chosen superior of his order if his rival in the candidature be removed; and in four-and-twenty hours the said rival must be food for the fishes of the Arno." "Then the night after that?" suggested Antonio. "Pre-engaged again," returned the bandit-captain coolly.
The moment Manuel d'Orsini entered the apartment by means of the private door, he embraced Giulia with a fondness which was more than half affected at least on that occasion and she herself returned the kiss less warmly than usual but this was because she was constrained and embarrassed by the presence of the bandit-captain, who was concealed behind the tapestry.
And to speak truly, it was also with the intention of making the old Israelite disgorge his plunder." "Plunder!" repeated the Jew, in a tone almost of indignation, in spite of the terror with which the bandit-captain inspired him.
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