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Instantly a loud cry of terror resounded through the apart at the bravo's feet; the conspirators were

ale, terror, and astonishan in all haste to repeat their

paternosters; the senators stood rooted to their places like so e doubted the information of his ears and eyes

Calm and terrible stood the bravo before theliness, with his bravo's habit, his girdle

filled with pistols and poniards, his distorted yellow countenance,

his black and bushy eyebrows, his lips convulsed, his right eye

covered by a large patch, and his left half buried aazed around him for

a few moments in silence, and then approached the stupefied Andreas

"Ho! ho!" he roared in a voice like thunder, "you wish to see the

bravo Abellino? Doge of Venice, here he stands, and is coazed with looks of horror on this th stammered out with difficulty, "It cannot be real; I must

surely be the sport of souards!" exclaia, and would

have hastened to the folding doors, when Abellino put his back

against theirdle, and pointed it at

the Cardinal's bosouard, or advances one