Were I to advise you to leave Naples, would you do so while Naples contains a foe to confront or a mistress to pursue ?" "You are right," said the young Englishman, with energy.

"No! and you cannot reproach me for such a resolution." "But there is another course left to you: do you love Viola Pisani truly and fervently ?--if so, marry her, and take a bride to your native land." "Nay," answered Glyndon, embarrassed; "Viola is not of my rank.

Her profession, too, is--in short, I am enslaved by her beauty, but I cannot wed her." Zanoni frowned.
"Your love, then, is but selfish lust, and I advise you to your own happiness no more.

Young man, Destiny is less inexorable than it appears.

The resources of the great Ruler of the Universe are not so scanty and so stern as to deny to men the divine privilege of Free Will; all of us can carve out our own way, and God can make our very contradictions harmonise with His solemn ends.