Chapter 66

"You think he loves you?" asked Valentine. "I know it," answered Graziosa, proudly. Valentine smiled and looked away. The smile and glance stung Visconti's betrothed like a whip-stroke. "What do you mean?" she cried. "You insult me--you insult him!" "Do you know Gian Visconti so very well?" asked his sister. "Have you seen him torturing his prisoners with the slow torture of the mind--worse than any rack? Have you seen him lying and betraying, stealing and murdering?" Graziosa looked at her wildly; she looked stran…