We are victims already, my Agostino.' 'But I do stipulate,' said Agostino, 'that my jewel is not to melt herself in the cup to-night.

I must see her.

As it is, she is inevitably down in the list for a week's or a month's incarceration.' Antonio-Pericles had this, in his case, singular piece of delicacy, that he refrained from the attempt to see Vittoria immediately after he had flung his magnificent bouquet of treasure at her feet.

In his intoxication with the success which he had foreseen and cradled to its apogee, he was now reckless of any consequences.

He felt ready to take patriotic Italy in his arms, provided that it would succeed as Vittoria had done, and on the spot.