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And their faith was particularly strengthened when Don Gusman, invoking a final blessing upon Alzire and Zamore, expired in the arms of Don Alvarez. For thus were the guilty punished, and the virtuous rewarded.
It was in vain that Don Alvarez reminded his son that the true Christian returns good for evil, and that, as he epigrammatically put it, 'Le vrai Dieu, mon fils, est un Dieu qui pardonne. To enforce his argument, the good old man told the story of how his own life had been spared by a virtuous American, who, as he said, 'au lieu de me frapper, embrassa mes genoux. But Don Gusman remained unmoved by such narratives, though he admitted that there was one consideration which impelled him to adopt a more lenient policy.
He was in love with Alzire, Alzire the young and beautiful daughter of Montèze, who had ruled in Lima before the coming of the Spaniards. 'Je l'aime, je l'avoue, said Gusman to his father, 'et plus que je ne veux. With these words, the dominating situation of the play becomes plain to the spectator. The wicked Spanish Governor is in love with the virtuous American princess.
Another bookseller orders novels, or translations of novels. "If you have no imagination," he says to the workman, "you will take a few of the adventures in 'Cyrus, in 'Gusman d'Alfarache, in the 'Secret Memoirs of a Gentleman of Quality, or 'Of a Lady of Quality'; and from the total you will prepare a volume of four hundred pages at twenty sous the sheet."
He is capable, for instance, of writing lines as bad as the second of this couplet C'est ce même guerrier dont la main tutélaire, De Gusman, votre époux, sauva, dit-on, le père, or as Qui les font pour un temps rentrer tous en eux-mêmes, or Vous comprenez, seigneur, que je ne comprends pas. Voltaire's most striking expressions are too often borrowed from his predecessors.
Mendoça sailed from Acapulco to the harbour of Xalisco, or Xalis, on the river Barania, in lat. 22° N. where he wished to take in wood and water. But he was resisted there, by the orders of Nunnes de Gusman, and obliged to proceed on his voyage. Some of his men mutinied, and he put them all on board one of his ships, that they might return to New Spain.
Pray, Don Fernando, follow her & soften Her heart to pitty the poore gentleman: The Crime is not so Capitall. Fer. Mac. That such a noble Spanyard as Don Pedro Should be so cursed in's Children! Enter Buzzano, Don Pedro, Fernando & Eleonora. Buz. Hee's come, hee's come, my Lord! Don Pedro Gusman is still alive, see, see! Mac. Let us descend to meet a happinesse Crownes all our expectations.
Act I. The scene is laid in Lima, the capital of Peru, some years after the Spanish conquest of America. When the play opens, Don Gusman, a Spanish grandee, has just succeeded his father, Don Alvarez, in the Governorship of Peru.
The story is true in every particular, and the adventurer surpasses Gusman d'Alfarache in address, according to the report of some persons present. Madame de Pompadour thought of having a play written, founded on this story; and the Count sent it to her in writing, from which I transcribed it. M. Duclos came to the Doctor's, and harangued with his usual warmth.
Zamore was at first unable to grasp the horrible truth, and, while he was still struggling with his conflicting emotions, the door was flung open, and Don Gusman, accompanied by his father, entered the room. A double recognition followed.
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