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Updated: June 28, 2025
The reader will recollect that when Flora Francatelli was released from the chair at the bottom of the pit or well, Sister Alba had led her along a narrow, dark passage communicating with the chamber of penitence.
"Love ruins us, my dear boy," he said, thinking to preach Richard a lesson, and Richard boisterously broke out: "The love of Monsieur Francatelli, It was the ruin of et coetera." Hippias blinked, exclaiming, "Really, my dear boy! I never saw you so excited." "It's the railway! It's the fun, uncle!" "Ah!" Hippias wagged a melancholy head, "you've got the Golden Bride! Keep her if you can.
In accordance with the plans detailed in the preceding chapter, Francisco and Flora, accompanied by the good dame Francatelli, and preceded by a suitable guard, now departed from the gorgeous pavilion of the grand vizier, on their way to the mansion of Wagner.
Suddenly the door opened, and Sister Alba, who presided over the chamber of penitence, appeared on the threshold. "Come forth, daughters!" she exclaimed; "and behold the punishment due to female frailty." The Countess of Arestino and Flora Francatelli mechanically obeyed this command; and a strange a heart-rending sight met their eyes.
"And Alessandro Francatelli?" inquired Flora, in a tone of disappointment, "will he not be there also?" "Fear not, you shall behold him shortly," answered the Turk; and passing behind the mounted sentinels, he drew aside the velvet curtain, at the same time bidding Flora and her aunt enter the pavilion.
Flora uttered a faint scream for the sudden apparition of those specter-like figures, at such a late hour of the night, was well calculated to alarm even a person of maturer age and stronger mind than Signora Francatelli. "You must accompany us, young lady," said the foremost nun, advancing toward her. "And beware how you create any disturbance for it will avail you nothing."
But her cries and her struggles were alike useless; for she was now firmly bound to the chair, into which the nuns had forced her to seat herself. Then commenced the maddening scene which will be found in the ensuing chapter. Having bound Flora Francatelli to the chair in the manner just described, the three nuns fell back a few paces, and the wretched girl felt the floor giving way under her.
Ibrahim placed a heavy purse and a case containing many costly jewels in the hands of Demetrius, saying: "These are as an earnest of my favor and friendship;" then, producing a second case, tied round with a silken cord, he added, "And this is for my aunt, the Signora Francatelli."
Hastening to her own apartments, she dismissed Flora Francatelli, whom she found there, with an abruptness of gesture and a frowning expression of countenance amounting to an act of cruelty toward that resigned and charming girl; so that as the latter hastened from the room, tears started from her eyes, and she murmured to herself, "Can it be possible that Donna Nisida suspects the attachment her brother has formed toward me?
This relative, whose name was, of course, also Francatelli, performed a mother's part toward the children: and deprived herself, not only of comforts, but at times even of necessaries, in order that they should not want.
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