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"Confusion!" exclaimed Parozzi, a Venetian nobleman of the first

rank, as he paced his cha

after Matteo's ht upon the villain's

aardness; yet it seems inconceivable to me how all this should

have fallen out so untowardly Has any one discovered ns?

I knoell that Verrino loves Rosabella Was it he who opposed

this confounded Abellino to Matteo, and charged hiainst her? That seee inquires who

it was that employed assassins to murder his niece, what other will

be suspected than Parozzi, the discontented lover, to whom Rosabella

refused her hand, and who once found the scent--Parozzi!

Parozzi! should the crafty Andreas get an insight into your plans,

should he learn that you have placed yourself at the head of a troop

of hare-brained youths--hare-brained may I well call children--who,

in order to avoid the rod, set fire to their paternal mansions

Parozzi, should all this be revealed to Andreas--?"

Here his reflections were interrupted Me Venetians of the highest

rank, Parozzi's inseparable companions, men depraved both in mind

and body, spendthrifts, voluptuaries, well known to every usurer in

Venice, and owing more than their paternal inheritance would ever

ad