Crossword-Solution: ARBORIO 7 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But what? Was not Filippo Arborio’s dedication in a sense reassuring? Did it not precisely affirm that the _Turris Eburnea_ was impregnable? This glorious qualification had been suggested to the author either simply by the reputation for purity that Juliana Hermil’s name bore, or by the non-success of an attempted assault, or, possibly, by the abandonment of a siege undertaken.

One of these passions aroused the other, and, while suffering from the distinct pains, I confounded the two women in the same pollution, Filippo Arborio and Eugenio Egano in the same hate.

Two or three times, with an indefinable motion of repulsion, with a start similar to that which a violent physical shock would produce, I saw the frail form of Arborio, whom my eyes sought involuntarily.

With the incoherence of the images that unrolled before me in thought, there arose in my mind certain remnants of my past life: Juliana before the mirror, on that November day; the bouquet of white chrysanthemums; my anxiety on hearing the air from Orpheus; the words written on the fly-leaf of _The Secret_; the color of Juliana’s dress; my soliloquy at the window; Filippo Arborio’s face, dripping with perspiration; the scene in the dressing-room of the salle d’armes.

Between my brother and me interposed the image of Filippo Arborio, revived by my hate, animated by my hate with life so intense that, on regarding it with a _sensation of reality_, I felt a physical spasm, something similar to the savage quivering that I had more than once felt on the duelling field, at the signal of attack, when face to face with an adversary.