ble that she trembled at having
used this simple means to bring about a mention of Ginevra's name. The
night was wintry; the north wind drove the snowflakes so sharply
against the blinds that the old couple fancied that they heard a gentle
rustling. Ginevra's mother dropped her head to hide her tears. Suddenly
a sigh burst from the old man's breast; his wife looked at him; he
seemed to her crushed. Then she risked speaking--for the second time in
three long years--of his daughter.

"Ginevra may be cold," she said, softly.

Piombo quivered.

"She may be hungry," she continued.

The old man dropped a tear.

"Perhaps she has a child and cannot suckle it; her milk is dried up!"
said the mother, in accents of despair.

"Let her come! let her come to me!" cried Piombo. "Oh! my precious
child, thou hast conquered me."

The mother rose as if to fetch her daughter. At that instant the door
opened noisily, and a man, whose face no longer bore the semblance of
humanity, stood suddenly before them.

"Dead! Our two families were doomed to exterminate each other. Here is
all that remains of her," he said, laying Ginevra's long black hair upon
the table.

The old people shook and quivered as if a stroke of lightning had
blasted them.

Luigi no longer stood before them.

"He has spared me a shot, for he is dead," said Bartolomeo, slowly,
gazing on the ground at his feet.

ADDENDUM

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.

Bidault (known as Gigonnet)
The Government Clerks
Gobseck
Cesar Birotteau
The Firm of Nucingen
A Daughter of Eve

Bonaparte, Napoleon
The Gondreville Mystery
Colonel Chabert
Domestic Peace
The Seamy Side of History
A Woman of Thirty

Bonaparte, Lucien
The Gondreville Mystery

Camusot de Marville, Madame
Cesar Birotteau
Jealousies of a Country Town
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Cousin Pons

Magus, Elie
A Marriage Settlement
A Bachelor's Establishment
Pierre Grassou
Cousin Pons

Murat, Joachim, Prince
The Gondreville Mystery
Colonel Chabert
Domestic Peace
The Country Doctor

Rapp
The Gondreville Mystery

Roguin
Cesar Birotteau
Eugenie Grandet
A Bachelor's Establishment
Pierrette

Thirion
Ce