Zicci Complete Author:Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton In the gardens at Naples, one summer evening in the last century, 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 favorite resort of an indolent population. One — of this little party was a young Englishman who had been the li... more »fe of the
whole group, but who for the last few moments had sunk into a gloomy and
abstracted revery. One of his countrymen observed this sudden gloom,
and tapping him on the back, said, "Glyndon, why, what ails you? 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