CHAPTER VI.

----"For here have been Some six or seven, who did hide their faces Even from darkness." SHAKESPEARE. Ellena, on thus suddenly losing her aunt, her only relative, the friend of her whole life, felt as if left alone in the world. But it was not in the first moments of affliction that this feeling occurred. Her own forlorn situation was not even observed, while affection, pity, and irresistible grief for Bianchi, occupied her heart. Bianchi was to be interred in the church belonging to the convent of Santa Mari…