She was borne from the stage, exhausted and insensible, amidst such a tempest of admiring rapture as Continental audiences alone can raise.

The crowd stood up, handkerchiefs waved, garlands and flowers were thrown on the stage, men wiped their eyes, and women sobbed aloud.
"By heavens!" said a Neapolitan of great rank, "she has fired me beyond endurance.

To-night, this very night, she shall be mine! You have arranged all, Mascari ?" "All, signor.

And if this young Englishman should accompany her home ?" "The presuming barbarian! At all events let him bleed for his folly.

I hear that she admits him to secret interviews.