CHAPTER 2.VII.
Learn to be poor in spirit, my son, if you would penetrate that sacred night which environs truth.

Learn of the Sages to allow to the Devils no power in Nature, since the fatal stone has shut 'em up in the depth of the abyss.

Learn of the Philosophers always to look for natural causes in all extraordinary events; and when such natural causes are wanting, recur to God .-- The Count de Gabalis.
All these additions to his knowledge of Zanoni, picked up in the various lounging-places and resorts that he frequented, were unsatisfactory to Glyndon.

That night Viola did not perform at the theatre; and the next day, still disturbed by bewildered fancies, and averse to the sober and sarcastic companionship of Mervale, Glyndon sauntered musingly into the public gardens, and paused under the very tree under which he had first heard the voice that had exercised upon his mind so singular an influence.

The gardens were deserted.