True; but there still is something given to guess.

Which a shrewd gleaner and quick eyjs would catch at;

A whisper, or a murmur, or an air

More or less solemn spread o’’er the tribunal.

The Forty are but men — most worthy men.

And wise, and just, and cautious — this I grant —

And secret as the grave to which they doom

The guilty ; but with all this, in their aspects —

At least in some, the juniors of the number —

A searching eye, an eye hke yours, Vincenzo,

Would read the sentence ere it was pronounced.