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THE JESUIT GENERAL.
No one remained in the drawing-room but Cagliostro and the beautiful woman who still lay quietly on the couch, upon the throne.

Cagliostro approached her, and, raising the veil, regarded her a moment, with an expression of the most passionate tenderness: "We are alone, Lorenza," said he.

She opened her great eyes, and looked around the dimly-lighted room; then, fixing them upon Cagliostro, who stood before her in his brilliant costume of magician, she burst into a merry laugh, so loud and so irresistible, that Cagliostro was seized involuntarily, and joined her.
"Oh! was it not heavenly, was it not a glorious comedy, and did I not play divinely, Joseph?
Was I not bewitching as the goddess of Nature ?" "You looked truly like a goddess, Lorenza, and there is nothing more beautiful than you, in heaven or upon earth.

But come, my enchantress, it is time to break up, as we are to set off early to-morrow morning." "Have we now much money?
Was the tribute richly paid ?" "Yes, we have a hundred louis d'ors and a diamond ring from the mistress of this house." "Give it to me," cried Lorenza.
"Not the ring, Lorenza, but the diamond, so soon as I have a false stone set in the ring--which I must keep as a ring in the chain which will bind this woman to our cause." "Was I not astonishingly like her?
Was it not almost unmistakable ?" "Yes, wonderfully deceptive.