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"I pray you to excuse my emotion, which must astonish you who are only accustomed to the happiness I meet here; but contentment is so new a sight to me, that I could never be weary of looking at yourself and your husband."

I am Giovanni Bertuccio; thy death for my brother's; thy treasure for his widow; thou seest that my vengeance is more complete than I had hoped.

"No one had ever spoken to her of love, because it was known that she was beloved by Vampa. And yet the two young people had never declared their affection; they had grown together like two trees whose roots are mingled, whose branches intertwined, and whose intermingled perfume rises to the heavens. Only their wish to see each other had become a necessity, and they would have preferred death to a day's separation."

"And now," said the unknown, "farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude!
Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good— now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!"

"This idea was one of vengeance to me, and I tasted it slowly in the night of my dungeon and the despair of my captivity. But now I have forgiven the world for the love of you.."

"While retracing the past, I forget the present; and traversing at will the path of history I cease to remember that I am myself a prisoner."