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Rh, methinks I could guide a guileless heart to a happy fate."

Thy counsels! I will obey them all. Mould me to what thou wilt. In thine absence, I am as a child that fears every shadow in the dark; in thy presence, my soul expands, and the whole world seems calm with a celestial noonday. Do not deny to me that presence. I am fatherless, and ignorant, and alone!"

Zanoni averted his face, and, after a moment's silence, replied, calmly —

"Be it so. Sister, I will visit thee again!"