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Though the torrent may be pent up and dammed by art, it is with the constant hazard of breaking down the unnatural barriers; but left to its own course, it will become the tranquil and the deep stream, until it finally throws off its superfluous waters into the common receptacle of the ocean. When Gelsomina returned to her visitors, it was with a report favorable to their tranquillity.
No sooner had she entered the little closet than she found herself alone, with one of her own sex. "Annina!" burst from the lips of the unpractised prison-girl, under the impulse of surprise. "Gelsomina! The simple, quiet, whispering, modest Gelsomina!" returned the other. The words of Annina admitted but of one construction.
The domestics, of whom there were several, put their heads together, and seemed to dispute on the propriety of receiving the visit. At this instant a gondolier in a flowered jacket entered the vestibule. Gelsomina took courage at his good-natured eye and frank manner. "Do you serve Don Camillo Monforte?" she asked, as he passed her, on his way to the canal.
Assassinations were frequent, and called for the care of the police; in short, father" Jacopo hid his face in the dress of Gelsomina "I consented to let them circulate such tales as might draw the eye of the public on me. I need not add, that he who lends himself to his own infamy will soon attain his object." "With what end was this miserable falsehood invented?"
Thou art still bound to thy father, in the instruction and habits of childhood, but thou mayest live to know that all thy hopes will centre in another." Gelsomina ceased to tremble, and her mild eye brightened. "The council is terrible," she answered, "but it must be more terrible to desert one to whom you have vowed duty and love at the altar!"
When a state sets up an idol of gold as its god, few will refuse to sacrifice at its altar!" "I would I might serve the noble Donna Violetta!" "Thou art too young, good Gelsomina, and I fear too little practised in the cunning of Venice." "Doubt me not, lady; for I can do my duty like another, in a good cause."
Gelsomina led the Bravo into an empty room of the attic which commanded a view of the port, the Lido, and the waste of water beyond. The breeze came in strong currents over the roofs of the town, and causing the masts of the port to rock, it lighted on the Lagunes, without the tiers of the shipping.
"Father," said Jacopo, with earnestness, "I may deserve the word; but the angels in Heaven are scarce purer than this weeping girl!" "I rejoice to hear it. I will believe thee, unfortunate man, and glad am I that thy soul is relieved from the sin of having corrupted one so youthful." The bosom of the prisoner heaved, while Gelsomina shuddered.
"Thou wast in the prison, in quest of forbidden articles that thou hadst long left with thy cousin Gelsomina, the keeper's daughter, who little suspected thy errand, and on whose innocence and ignorance of the world thou hast long successfully practised. Donna Violetta is no vulgar prisoner, to be immured in a jail." "Santissima Madre di Dio!"
Not so Gelsomina. Parting her hair over her spotless forehead with both hands, she advanced towards the fishermen, who were familiar to her eye by their red caps and bare limbs. Her smile was like that which the imagination would bestow on the blessed, in their intercourse of love. "Venetians!" she said, "I cannot blame you; ye are here to witness the death of one whom ye believe unfit to live "
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