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"The lady herself pleads for you at what cost you do not guess but as you see it is vain. In an hour his Illustriousness's chaplain will be here. Meanwhile his Illustriousness consents to leave you in the custody of your betrothed." He stepped back, and the other gentlemen, bowing with deep ceremony to Tony, stalked out one by one from the room.
"Be careful," said the Count, in a low tone. "Though his Illustriousness does not speak your language, he understands a few words of it, and " "So much the better!" broke in Tony; "I hope he will understand me if I ask him in plain English what is his grievance against me."
There were amiable people, otherwise conspicuously eligible, whom she must omit if she adhered to her plan, and there were some whom she despised that must be asked on account of the illustriousness of their pedigree. But Mrs. Gouverneur had set out to check the deterioration of society in New York, and she was not the woman to draw back when principle demanded the sacrifice of her feelings.
This signal was, so Kwang condescended to say, to inform His Illustriousness the Ever-Merciful Viceroy that he, Kwang, his crawling dependent, guided by Carpenter's high intelligence, and supreme and honoured skill as a navigator, had achieved the object which His Illustriousness desired.
"Of sending you, just now, in the church of Saint Mark's, a letter which you were seen to read openly and thrust in your bosom. The incident was witnessed by his Illustriousness the Marquess Zanipolo, who, in consequence, has already repudiated his unhappy bride." Tony stared contemptuously at the black Marquess. "That, my dear young gentleman, is hardly for you to decide.
I esteem it a great thing that I pleased you, who distinguish probity from baseness, not by the illustriousness of a father, but by the purity of heart and feelings. So that, if any person had considered my dress, and the slaves who attended me in so populous a city, he would have concluded that those expenses were supplied to me out of some hereditary estate.
"I was merely about to remark that, by the young lady's avowal, she has never seen me before." Polixena's eyes signalled her gratitude, and he felt he would have died to defend her. The Count translated his statement, and presently pursued: "His Illustriousness observes that, in that case, his daughter's misconduct has been all the more reprehensible." "Her misconduct? Of what does he accuse her?"
"The lady herself pleads for you at what cost you do not guess but as you see it is vain. In an hour his Illustriousness's chaplain will be here. Meanwhile his Illustriousness consents to leave you in the custody of your betrothed." He stepped back, and the other gentlemen, bowing with deep ceremony to Tony, stalked out one by one from the room.
"Of sending you, just now, in the church of Saint Mark's, a letter which you were seen to read openly and thrust in your bosom. The incident was witnessed by his Illustriousness the Marquess Zanipolo, who, in consequence, has already repudiated his unhappy bride." Tony stared contemptuously at the black Marquess. "That, my dear young gentleman, is hardly for you to decide.
"I was merely about to remark that, by the young lady's avowal, she has never seen me before." Polixena's eyes signalled her gratitude, and he felt he would have died to defend her. The Count translated his statement, and presently pursued: "His Illustriousness observes that, in that case, his daughter's misconduct has been all the more reprehensible." "Her misconduct? Of what does he accuse her?"
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