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Updated: May 23, 2025
Some distance from the Jew's shop he bade Miriam adieu, promising to call and let her know the result. On reaching Don Garcia's palace Diniz was surprised at the sounds of bright music, mingled with happy voices, that floated on the air. Satzavan was the first to meet him, and he went forward with a welcoming smile. "Where is Lianor?" Diniz asked anxiously, glancing round the deserted halls.
"He is very good to me and my children; the past seems but a dream now. If only we had money, all would be well." Miriam, with a few gentle, consoling words, slipped a few bright coins into the tiny brown hands of the astonished babies; then, with a sigh, she bade the grateful mother adieu and went out to where Diniz was waiting.
"You could not be so hard, knowing how my happiness is bound up in him. I will never, while Luiz lives, give my hand to another." "Thank you, Lianor; nor will Falcam let you," a deep voice broke in suddenly, and Luiz, his face flushed with mingled pleasure and disgust, came toward her, followed by his bosom friend, Diniz Sampayo, a young and rich noble.
"As you like; I shan't be long, Diniz." Sampayo nodded, and commenced his search, turning over every object that took his fancy, aided by Miriam. "I will show you something very curious a poignard strangely fashioned," the girl said, drawing the weapon her grandfather had just bought from its hiding place.
Diniz thought suddenly of Miriam, and wondered how she would bear this blow. Her only relative and dearly-loved parent torn from her side, to linger in a damp cell. How bitterly he blamed himself for having been the cause of Phenee's capture! If he had not disclosed the secret of Phenee having bought the poignard from Jarima, no one would have suspected him. "Poor girl!
"Yes, but he is useless; when we arrived, some one had been before us, and not only blinded him, but cut out his tongue, so that he could not speak." "How horrible! How could any one have been so cold-blooded?" Diniz gasped, turning pale. "Evidently it was done for some purpose. But come, Sampayo, I cannot wait here." "Will nothing I say convince you I am innocent?
"You wished to see me, senora?" "Yes. I want you to answer a few questions. First, have you not got Phenee, the Jew, and Diniz Sampayo here?" "Yes, senora." "Are they together?" "No, senora." "Could it be possible for you to set them free, without fear of detection?" eagerly. "Yes, senora; but I am not a traitor."
Between these towers still opens the huge west door, a very plainly moulded pointed arch of seven orders, resting on the simple capitals of sixteen shafts: a form of door which became very common throughout the fourteenth century. The great cloister was rebuilt later in the time of Dom Diniz, leaving only the chapter-house entrance, which seems even older than the nave.
The inside is less interesting, the pointed arches are rather thin and the capitals poor, the only thing much worthy of notice being the font, belonging to the time of change from Gothic to Renaissance, and given in 1512. Of the other buildings of the time of Dom Affonso IV. who succeeded his father Diniz in 1328 the most important
It is only on looking closer that the real date is seen, for the figures on the capitals, which are carved with scenes such as the beheading of St. John the Baptist, are all dressed in the fashion that prevailed under Dom Diniz about 1300 while the foliage on others, though still romanesque in arrangement, is much later in detail.
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