I assure you solemnly, though Fabio was my friend, and an excellent fellow in his ways, he was never worthy of the woman he married!" "Indeed!" I said, coldly, as this dagger-thrust struck home to my heart.

"I only knew him when he was quite a boy.

He seemed to me then of a warm and loving temperament, generous to a fault, perhaps over-credulous, yet he promised well.

His father thought so, I confess I thought so too.

Reports have reached me from time to time of the care with which he managed the immense fortune left to him.