Chapter 4

possible on four gilded cruets, and a dozen goblets. _Azucena_ is brought before the Count, and manacled. Operatic handcuffs--a most humane contrivance--with long links, to permit of the freest facilities for entreaty and imprecation. Soldiers, who have been called to arms, but stayed, from a natural curiosity to hear what the _Conte di Luna_ had to say to the Gipsy, go off, as she is led away to prison, with a sense that they have seen all there _is_ to be seen, and a vague recollection that there is some fighting to be done somewhere.