The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1

CHAPTER I.

THE MEN.

But bring me to the knowledge of your chiefs. MARINO FALIERO.

Midnight was over Rome. The skies were dark and lowering, and ominous of tempest; for it was a sirocco, and the welkin was overcast with sheets of vapory cloud, not very dense, indeed, or solid, but still sufficient to intercept the feeble twinkling of the stars, which alone held dominion i...