Novels Zannoni 1901 Author:Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK THE SECOND. ART, LOVE, AND WONDER. " Diverei aspetti in un conf usi e misti."1 Ger. Lib., cant. iv. 5. CHAPTER I. " Centauri, e Sflngi, e pal... more »lide Gorgoni. "2 Ger. Lib., cant. iv. 5. One moonlit night, in the Gardens at Naples, some four or five gentlemen were seated under a tree, drinking their sherbet, and listening, in the intervals of conversation, to the music which enlivened that gay and favourite resort of an indolent population. One of this little party was a young Englishman, who had been the life of the whole group, but who, for the last few moments, had sunk into a gloomy and abstracted reverie. One of his countrymen observed this sudden gloom, and, tapping him on the back, said, " What ails you, Glyndon? Are you ill? You have grown quite pale—you tremble. Is it a sudden chill? You had better go home: these Italian nights are often dangerous to our English constitutions." " No, I am well now! it was a passing shudder. I cannot account for it myself." A man, apparently of about thirty years of age, and of a mien and countenance strikingly superior to those around him, turned abruptly, and looked steadfastly at Glyndon. 1 Different appearances, confused and mixt in one. 8 Centaurs, and Sphinxes, and pallid Gorgons. " I think I understand what you mean," said he; " and perhaps," he added, with a grave smile, " I could explain, it better than yourself." Here, turning to the others, he added, " You must often have felt, gentlemen, each and all of you, especially when sitting alone at night, a strange and unaccountable sensation of coldness and awe creep over you; your blood curdles, and the heart stands still; the limbs shiver, the hair bristles; you are afraid to lookup, to turn your eyes to the darker corners of the room; you have a ho...« less