The features of the infant, as she gazed, took the aspect of the absent father.

A voice seemed to break from those rosy lips, and say, mournfully, "I speak to thee in thy child.

In return for all my love for thee and thine, dost thou distrust me, at the first sentence of a maniac who accuses ?" Her breast heaved, her stature rose, her eyes shone with a serene and holy light.
"Go, poor victim of thine own delusions," she said to Glyndon; "I would not believe mine own senses, if they accused ITS father! And what knowest thou of Zanoni?
What relation have Mejnour and the grisly spectres he invoked, with the radiant image with which thou wouldst connect them ?" "Thou wilt learn too soon," replied Glyndon, gloomily.

"And the very phantom that haunts me, whispers, with its bloodless lips, that its horrors await both thine and thee! I take not thy decision yet; before I leave Venice we shall meet again." He said, and departed..