Is it not as if he desired to keep my youth the slave to his age; to make me dependent solely on himself; to bind me to a journeyman's service by perpetual excitement to curiosity, and the sight of the fruits he places beyond my lips ?" These, and many reflections still more repining, disturbed and irritated him.

Heated with wine--excited by the wild revels he had left--he was unable to sleep.

The image of that revolting Old Age which Time, unless defeated, must bring upon himself, quickened the eagerness of his desire for the dazzling and imperishable Youth he ascribed to Zanoni.

The prohibition only served to create a spirit of defiance.

The reviving day, laughing jocundly through his lattice, dispelled all the fears and superstitions that belong to night.