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By means of thrift and labour Solomon had succeeded in creating for himself a prosperity that put the poverty of the other fishermen to the blush. No one had asked for Nisida because no one thought he deserved her. The only admirer who had dared to show his passion openly was Bastiano, the most devoted and dearest friend of Gabriel; but Bastiano did not please her.
Away away toward the mountains rushes the Wehr-Wolf, those mountains which constitute the barrier of safety to protect Nisida from the fangs of the animal that would mangle her fair form were she to cross its path. But, ah! he rushes up the acclivity he clears rugged rock and jutting crag with wondrous bounds; just Heaven! will he pass those heights will he cross the range of volcanic hills? Oh!
She made a sign for the banditti to take the bags of gold from the table, an intimation which Piero and Lomellino did not hesitate to obey. The private staircase leading into the garden then afforded them the means of an unobserved departure; and Nisida felt rejoiced at the success of her midnight interview with the chiefs of the Florentine banditti.
A terrific scream burst from the lips of Margaretha; and she threw her wild looks around as if she were going mad. "Detestable woman!" exclaimed Nisida, fixing her burning eyes more intently still on Margaretha's countenance: "you are now about to pay the penalty of your complicity in the most odious crimes that ever made nights terrible in Florence! The period of vengeance has at length arrived!
Francisco in the hands of the formidable banditti Flora in the prison of the inquisition and the Ottoman grand vizier bent upon effecting the marriage which Nisida abhorred these tidings were sufficient to arouse all the wondrous energies of that mind which was so prompt in combining intrigues and plots, so resolute in carrying them out, and so indomitable when it had formed a will of its own.
Nisida embraced him tenderly; and covering her countenance, as much as possible, with her slouched hat, the waving plumes of which she made to fall over her face, this extraordinary being issued from the cell. Nisida regained her apartment, by the private staircase, without any molestation.
"Thou be my companion thou, Nisida!" exclaimed Wagner, his whole frame convulsed with mental agony. "Merciful Heaven! what fiend has prompted thee thus to speak!
"Nisida dearest Nisida!" said Wagner, who had returned to her unperceived, and unheard for his feet passed noiselessly over the sand; "wherefore those passionate exclamations? why this anxious longing to revisit the busy, bustling world? Are not the calm and serene delights of this island sufficient for our happiness? or art thou wearied of me who love thee so tenderly?"
The vision of the previous night had so firmly established hope in his soul, that he had prepared and tutored himself, during his journey across the mountains, to sacrifice all his happiness on earth to insure the eternal felicity of heaven. No. Nisida was not there.
When morning dawned, Nisida rose from a couch in which she had obtained two hours of troubled slumber, and, having hastily dressed herself, proceeded to the chamber of her brother Francisco. But he was not there nor had his bed been slept in during the past night. "He is searching after his Flora," thought Nisida. "Alas, poor youth how it grieves me thus to be compelled to thwart thee in thy love!
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