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The velvet cloak sat so jauntily on her sloping shoulder; the doublet became her symmetry so well; and the rich lace collar was so arranged as to disguise the prominence of the chest that voluptuous fullness which could not be compressed. At length a sudden thought struck Fernand, and he inquired, in the usual manner, how Nisida had gained access to him?
Nisida, Nisida!" he exclaimed aloud, in a tone expressive of deep anguish; "what will become of your unfortunate brother? But it is not you who have done this! No for you were not in Florence at the time which beheld the cruel separation of Flora and myself!" And, throwing himself on his sister's neck, he burst into tears.
"Some treachery is at work here, Nisida," was the young count's response. "Flora has not willingly absented herself." At this moment Francisco's page entered the apartment to announce that Dr. Duras was in the reception-room. The young count made a sign to his sister to accompany him; and they proceeded to the elegant saloon where the physician was waiting.
Yes; and not one only, but another, and another, and another, until she can count seven vessels, all emerging from the mighty distance, and spreading their snow-white canvas to the breeze which wafts them toward the isle. Crowds of conflicting thoughts now rush to the mind of Nisida; and she seats herself upon the strand to deliberate as calmly as she may upon the course which she should adopt.
Nisida! enough crime has been perpetrated by both us, Heaven knows!" ejaculated Wagner, still writhing with the anguish produced by the avowal which had so lately met his ears. "Oh! accursed be the day, blotted from the annals of Time be the hour, Nisida, when thy hand struck the fatal dagger into the heart of Agnes."
"I am acquainted with thy name, and with all that concerns thee and thine, Nisida," replied the fiend; "ay," he added, with a malignant chuckle, "even to the mystery of the closet in thy late father's chamber, and the contents of the terrible manuscript which taught thee such dreadful secrets!
Nisida made a powerful effort to subdue the emotions that were agitating her: and, advancing toward the door, she made a sign for the banditti to follow her. She led them to her own suit of apartments, and to the innermost room her own bed-chamber having carefully secured the several doors through which they passed.
He then handed them to Nisida; and it was now her turn to experience the wildest surprise for on the page opened to her view were these words, traced in a beautiful style of calligraphy, and in the Italian language: "Is it possible that your ladyship can be the Donna Nisida of Riverola?"
Follow the enclosing ridge to the left, to where its slope cuts athwart plain and sea and sky; there close upon the coast lies the island rock of Nisida, meeting-place of Cicero and Brutus after Caesar's death. Turn to the opposite quarter of the plain. First rises the cliff of Camaldoli, where from their oak-shadowed lawn the monks look forth upon as fair a prospect as is beheld by man.
Then she sat up in her bed, and continued her monologue which we will spare the reader till the morning. Scarcely had the first rays of light filtered through the interlacing branches of jasmine and wavered into the room, when Nisida dressed herself hurriedly, and went as usual to present her forehead to her father's kiss.
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