I hope the connection will not last long, or we shall lose our best singer.

Addio!" Glyndon stood mute and motionless.

He knew not what to think, to believe, or how to act.

Even Merton was not at hand to advise him.
His conscience smote him bitterly; and half in despair, half in the courageous wrath of jealousy, he resolved to repair to the palace of the prince himself, and demand his captive in the face of his assembled guests..