Hastily quitting the Prisoner who remained insensible, they crowded round Lorenzo, and claimed his promise to protect them.

Virginia alone forgot her own danger by striving to relieve the sorrows of Another.

She supported the Sufferer's head upon her knees, bathing her temples with rose-water, chafing her cold hands, and sprinkling her face with tears which were drawn from her by compassion.

The Strangers approaching nearer, Lorenzo was enabled to dispel the fears of the Suppliants.

His name, pronounced by a number of voices among which He distinguished the Duke's, pealed along the Vaults, and convinced him that He was the object of their search.