But get you gone; there is no danger whilst I am here.' Impatiently he watched the man retire, then stood just within the gap of the wall, and waited with as much fear as hope.

It might be that Veranilda would not venture forth without speaking to Aurelia, who might forbid the meeting; or, if she tried to steal out, she might be detected and hindered; perhaps she would fear to pass under the eyes of a watchman or other servant who might be in her way.

He stamped nervously, and turned to look for a moment in the outward direction.
This little villa stood on the edge of a declivity falling towards the sea; a thicket of myrtles grew below.

At the distance of half a mile along the coast, beyond a hollow wooded with ilex, rose a temple, which time and the hand of man had yet spared; its whiteness glimmered against a sky whose cloudless dusk was warming with a reflection of the daybreak.

An influence in the scene before him, something he neither understood nor tried to understand, held him gazing longer than he supposed, and with a start he heard his name spoken by the beloved voice.