MARINELLI.
Your Highness knows how sincerely I was attached to Count Appiani--how our souls were interwoven----
ODOARDO.
Does his Highness know that? Then you are indeed the only one who does know it.
MARINELLI.
Appointed his avenger by himself----
ODOARDO.
You?
MARINELLI.
Ask your wife. The name of Marinelli was the last word of the dying Count, and was uttered in such a tone----Oh may that dreadful tone sound in my ears for ever, if I do not strain every nerve to discover and to punish his murderers!