thee banish from thy heart all thought of me, but
as one whom the Future cries aloud to thee to avoid. Glyndon, if thou
acceptest his homage, will love thee till the tomb closes upon both. I,
too," he added with emotion,--"I, too, might love thee!"

"You!" cried Viola, with the vehemence of a sudden impulse of delight,
of rapture, which she could not suppress; but the instant after, she
would have given worlds to recall the exclamation.

"Yes, Viola, I might love thee; but in that love what sorrow and what
change! The flower gives perfume to the rock on whose heart it grows. A
little while, and the flower is dead; but the rock still endures,--the
snow at its breast, the sunshine on its summit. Pause,--think well.
Danger besets thee yet. For some days thou shalt be safe from thy
remorseless persecutor; but the hour soon comes when thy only security
will be in flight. If the Englishman love thee worthily, thy honour will
be dear to him as his own; if not, there are yet other lands where love
will be truer, and virtue less in danger from fraud and force. Farewell;
my own destiny I cannot foresee except through cloud and shadow. I know,
at least, that we shall meet again; but learn ere then, sweet flower,
that there are more genial resting-places than the rock."

He turned as he spoke, and gained the outer door where Gionetta
discreetly stood. Zanoni lightly laid his hand on her arm. With the gay
accent of a jesting cavalier, he said,--

"The Signor Glyndon woos your mistress; he may wed her. I know your love
for her. Disabuse her of any caprice for me. I am a bird ever on the
wing."

He dropped a purse into Gionetta's hand as he spoke, and was gone.

CHAPTER 2.IV.

Les Intelligences Celestes se font voir, et see communiquent plus
volontiers, dans le silence et dans la tranquillite de la
solitude. On aura donc une petite chambre ou un cabinet secret,
etc.

"Les Clavicules de Rabbi Salomon," chapter 3; traduites
exactement du texte Hebreu par M. Pierre Morissoneau, Professeur
des Langues Orientales, et Sectateur de la Philosophie des Sages
Cabalistes. (Manuscript Translation.)

(The Celestial Intelligences exhibit and explain themselves most
freely in silence and the tranquillity of solitude. One will
have then a little chamber, or a secret cabinet, etc.)

The palace retained by Zanoni was in one of the less frequented quarters
of the city. It still st