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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLII. Vol. LV. April, 1844

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCXLII. APRIL, 1844. VOL. LV.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE PIRATES OF SEGNA.
--A TALE OF VENICE AND THE ADRIATIC. IN TWO PARTS.--PART II.

THE SLAVE-TRADE.

MOSLEM HISTORIES OF SPAIN.
--THE ARABS OF CORDOVA.

TWO NIGHTS IN SOUTHERN MEXICO.
--A FRAGMENT FROM THE JOURNAL OF AN AMERICAN TRAVELLER.

THE BRITISH FLEET.

MARSTON; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A STATESMAN.
--PART X.

THE CHILD'S WARNING.

THE TWO PATRONS.

IRELAND.

THE PIRATES OF SEGNA.

A TALE OF VENICE AND THE ADRIATIC. IN TWO PARTS.

PART II.

CHAPTER I.--THE BATTLE OF THE BRIDGE.

The time occupied by the events detailed in the three preceding
chapters, had been passed by Antonio in a state of self-exile from his
master's studio. Conscious of having disobeyed the earnest injunctions
of Contarini, the weakness of his character withheld him alike from
confessing his fault, and from encountering the penetrating gaze of
the old painter. Neglecting thus his usual occupation, he passed his
days in his gondola, wandering about the canals in the hope of again
meeting with the mysterious being who had made such an impression on
his excitable fancy. Hitherto all his researches had been fruitless;
but although day after day passed without his finding the smallest
trace of her he sought, his repeated disappointments seemed only to
increase the obstinacy with which he continued the search.

The incognita not only engrossed all his waking thoughts, but she
still haunted him in his dreams. Scarcely a night