You may have power which I cannot comprehend or emulate, or you may be but a keen impostor." "Well, sir, your logical position is not ill-taken; proceed." "I mean then," continued Glyndon, resolutely, though somewhat disconcerted, "I mean you to understand, that, though I am not to be persuaded or compelled by a stranger to marry Isabel di Pisani, I am not the less determined never tamely to yield her to another." Zicci looked gravely at the young man, whose sparkling eyes and heightened color testified the spirit to support his words, and replied: "So bold! well, it becomes you.

You have courage, then; I thought it.
Perhaps it may be put to a sharper test than you dream of.

But take my advice: wait three days, and tell me then if you will marry this young person." "But if you love her, why, why--" "Why am I anxious that she should wed another?
To save her from myself! Listen to me.

That girl, humble and uneducated though she be, has in her the seeds of the most lofty qualities and virtues.

She can be all to the man she loves,--all that man can desire in wife or mistress.