Zicci, Complete

d with his marriage with the poor actress. His fears, too, were naturally aroused by the threat that by marriage alone could he save himself from the rivalry of Zicci,-Zicci, born to dazzle

t not the actress and the Corsican be in league with each other? Might not all this jargon of prophecy-and menace be but artifices to dupe him,-the tool, perhaps, of a mountebank and his mistress! Mistress,-ah, no! If ever maidenhood wrote its modest characters externally, that pure eye, that noble foreh

d to his account of his interview with Zicc

whose genius has been extolled by all the graybeards? Not a boy turned out from a village school but would laugh you to scorn. And so because Signor Zicci tells you that you will be a marvellously great man if you revolt

"but you distract me. I will go to Isabel's h

orget her," said Merton. Glyndon sei