Neither my countenance nor my mind is unused to a mask--thanks to necessity! My spirits have been too buoyant not to have made me acquainted with duplicity!" "Thou speakest, ungrateful boy, as if I denied thy youth the usual indulgences of thy years and rank.

It is thy excesses, and not thy spirits, I would check.

But I would not now harden thee with reproof.
Giacomo, thou hast a rival in the stranger.

His act in the Giudecca has won upon the fancy of the girl; and like all of generous and ardent natures, ignorant as she is of his merits, she supplies his character with all necessary qualities by her own ingenuity." "I would she did the same by me!" "With thee, Sirrah, my ward might be required to forget, rather than invent.

Hast thou bethought thee of turning the eyes of the council on the danger which besets their heiress ?" "I have." "And the means ?" "The plainest and the most certain--the lion's mouth." "Ha! that, indeed, is a bold adventure." "And, like all bold adventures, it is the more likely to succeed.