Book 6. 
XXIX.  Episodes of the revolt and the war—­the tobacco riots
          —­Rinaldo Guidascarpi
XXX.  Episodes of the revolt and the war—­the five days of
Milan
XXXI.  Episodes of the revolt and the war—­Vittoria disobeys her lover
XXXII.  Episodes of the revolt and the war—­the treachery of
          Pericles-the write umbrella—­the death of Rinaldo Guidascarpi

Book 7. 
XXXIII.  Episodes of the revolt and the war—­count Karl Lenkenstein—­
          the story of the Guidascarpi—­the victory of the volunteers
XXXIV.  Episodes of the revolt and the war—­the deeds of Barto Rizzo—­
          the meeting at Roveredo
XXXV.  Close of the Lombard campaign—­Vittoria’s perplexity
XXXVI.  A fresh entanglement
XXXVII.  On Lago Maggiore
XXXVIII.  Violetta D’ISORELLA
XXXIX.  Anna of Lenkenstein

Book 8. 
XL.  Through the winter
XLI.  The interview
XLII.  The shadow of conspiracy
XLIII.  The last meeting in Milan
XLIV.  The wife and the husband
XLV.  Shows many paths converging to the end
XLVI.  The last
          epilogue

CHAPTER I

From Monte Motterone you survey the Lombard plain.  It is a towering dome of green among a hundred pinnacles of grey and rust-red crags.  At dawn the summit of the mountain has an eagle eye for the far Venetian boundary and the barrier of the Apennines; but with sunrise come the mists.  The vast brown level is seen narrowing in; the Ticino and the Sesia waters, nearest, quiver on the air like sleepy lakes; the plain is engulphed up to the high ridges of the distant Southern mountain range, which lie stretched to a faint cloud-like line, in shape like a solitary monster of old seas crossing the Deluge.  Long arms of vapour stretch across the urn-like valleys, and gradually thickening and swelling upward, enwrap the scored bodies of the ashen-faced peaks and the pastures of