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interview with, the actress. But after a night following his last conversation with Zanoni, and that we have just recorded with Mervale — a night coloured by dreams so distinct as to seem prophetic — dreams that appeared so to shape his future according to the hints of Zanoni, that he could have fancied Zanoni himself had sent them from the house of sleep to haunt his pillow, he resolved once more to seek Viola; and though without a definite or distinct object, he yielded himself up to the impulse of his heart.