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"When I was at my aunt's we met each other often but to you, my father, I have ever referred him as our final arbiter. I need not say that the known political rivalry between his father and yourself has made him backward in addressing you." "All men speak well of Augustus Glinski. I blame you not, my child; I only tremble for you.
"That which will cost you nothing, though you alone can accomplish it the release and pardon of Augustus Glinski. "I will not ask what are your motives in all this, nor how you have divined my wishes, but revenge the death of the Duke of Lithuania, and far more than the liberation of the young Augustus shall be your reward." "I ask, and will accept no other. But his rescue must first be obtained."
He accordingly proposed his release. The representations of the minister were here unavailing; he would listen to nothing but the dictates of his own vindictive feelings. Count Laski detailed the manner of his arrest, and explained the singular interest he felt in the pardon and liberation of this youth; adding, that if Angustus Glinski died upon the scaffold, he feared the life of his daughter.
Maria, however, called him in, and bade him deliver his message. "You come," she said to the youth, who still hesitated to speak "you come from the younger Glinski: speak openly what is it he has commissioned you to say?"
"What is this," exclaimed Bona, suddenly starting up "what is this you would tempt me to? You dare not even name the horrid deed you would have me commit. Avaunt! you are a devil, Albert Glinski! you would drag me to perdition." Then, falling in tears upon his neck, she implored him not to tempt her further. "Oh, Albert! Albert!" she cried, "I beseech you, plunge me not into this pit of guilt.
Glinski had a secret motive for the acquisition of this slave: his known fidelity, his surprising address and power, had protected the life of the minister against more than one scheme of assassination. "The exchange," replied Laski, "is too much in my favour. Your Italian marble would purchase a hundred slaves.
"I hope not. Why do you ask?" "A maid of mine, who in the city gathers news as busily as bees, in the open fields, their honey" "Your simile, I fear, would scarce hold good as to the honey." "No, in faith; and there is no honey in the news she brings. She tells me that a camp is forming in the frontiers between Poland and Lithuania, and that Augustus Glinski is sent there to command the troops.
Who shall describe the grief and despair of Maria when she heard of the cruel resolution which the king had taken, of the dreadful fate which threatened Augustus Glinski? As she sat this time in her Gothic chamber, and in her accustomed chair, what a mortal paleness had settled upon her countenance!
A few tears, a few smiles, and the old king will lapse into his dotage." "You speak in riddles, Glinski; I comprehend nothing of all this." "Yet it is clear enough. Thus it stands: the Duke of Lithuania loved the wife of Sigismund, king of Poland. Love! I call to witness all the saints in heaven! love alone prompted his daring suit.
She had sought for pleasure only in the society of Glinski; it was a cruel disappointment, it was a frightful surprise, to find herself thrust suddenly, with unsandaled feet, on the thorny path of ambition. She sank back on the couch where they had both been sitting, and, hiding her face in both her hands, remained in that position while the duke continued to unfold his schemes at greater length.
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