[Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton]@TWC D-Link bookZanoni CHAPTER 4 1/33
CHAPTER 4.I. Come vittima io vengo all' ara. "Metast.," At.ii.Sc.
7. (As a victim I go to the altar.) It was about a month after the date of Zanoni's departure and Glyndon's introduction to Mejnour, when two Englishmen were walking, arm-in-arm, through the Toledo. "I tell you," said one (who spoke warmly), "that if you have a particle of common-sense left in you, you will accompany me to England.
This Mejnour is an imposter more dangerous, because more in earnest, than Zanoni.
After all, what do his promises amount to? You allow that nothing can be more equivocal.
You say that he has left Naples,--that he has selected a retreat more congenial than the crowded thoroughfares of men to the studies in which he is to initiate you; and this retreat is among the haunts of the fiercest bandits of Italy,--haunts which justice itself dares not penetrate.
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