No sooner did this medicine moisten the infant's lips, than it seemed to produce an astonishing effect.

The colour revived rapidly on the lips and cheeks; in a few moments the sufferer slept calmly, and with the regular breathing of painless sleep.

And then the old man rose, rigidly, as a corpse might rise,--looked down, listened, and creeping gently away, stole to the corner of the room, and wept, and thanked Heaven! Now, old Bernardi had been, hitherto, but a cold believer; sorrow had never before led him aloft from earth.

Old as he was, he had never before thought as the old should think of death,--that endangered life of the young had wakened up the careless soul of age.

Zanoni whispered to the wife, and she drew the old man quietly from the room.
"Dost thou fear to leave me an hour with thy charge, Viola?
Thinkest thou still that this knowledge is of the Fiend ?" "Ah," said Viola, humbled and yet rejoiced, "forgive me, forgive me, signor.