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Updated: June 8, 2025
Yes, for hate of Morella," and she clenched her little hand, hissing the words out between her teeth. "I understand the feeling," said Peter. "But but what has he done to you?" "Do not ask me, Senor. Enough that once I loved him that accursed priest Henriques sold me into his power oh! a long while ago, and he ruined me, making me what I am, and I bore his child, and and it is dead. Oh!
If Affonso Henriques thought that night that he had conquered, morning was to shatter the illusion. He was awakened early by a chamberlain at the urgent instances of Emigio Moniz, who was demanding immediate audience. Affonso Henriques sat up in bed, and bade him to be admitted. The elderly knight and faithful counsellor came in, treading heavily.
Affonso Henriques wasted no words. "I have summoned you," he announced, "to command that you proceed to the election of a bishop." A rustle stirred through the priestly throng. The canons looked askance at the prince and at one another. Then one of them spoke. "Habemus episcopum," he said gravely, and several instantly made chorus: "We have a bishop." The eyes of the young sovereign kindled.
Now Henriques fell upon his knees, and with groans and tears began to implore mercy. "Why do you complain so?" asked Inez, watching him with reflective eyes. "The end would be much gentler than that which you righteous folk mete out to many more honest men, yes, and women too. For my part, I think that the Senor Bernaldez gives good counsel.
They spoke low, and in some tongue which may have been Kaffir or Portuguese, but was in any case unknown to me. I lay, cramped and eager, for many minutes, and was just getting sick of it when a familiar name caught my ear. Henriques said something in which I caught the word 'Blaauwildebeestefontein. I listened intently, and there could be no mistake.
Henriques, who had already extracted a considerable sum from the young nobleman, and looked upon the transaction as a safe investment calculated to yield a certain profit for some months to come, was very unwilling to relinquish his promised gain.
"God give me patience with you," Affonso Henriques answered him. "Listen to me now, lord Cardinal." And he leaned forward on his dagger, burying the point of it some inches into the deal table. "That you should punish me with the weapons of the Faith for the sins that you allege against me I can understand and suffer. There is reason in that, perhaps.
The minister repeated the name, and for the next few minutes it recurred often in their talk. I went back stealthily to bed, having something to make me forget my aching tooth. First of all, Laputa and Henriques were allies. Second, the place I was bound for had something to do with their schemes.
By this time Henriques was speechless with terror. There he knelt upon the floor, glaring at this soft-voiced, remorseless woman who had made a tool and a fool of him; who had beguiled him there that night, and who hated him so bitterly and with so just a cause. Peter was speaking now. "It would be better not to stain our hands with the creature's blood," he said.
Be sure that you drink of that which I hold in my left hand, passing the cup up beneath your veil so as not to show your face, and speak no word, lest he should recognise your voice. Then we shall go into the chapel, where the priest Henriques waits, also all the household. But that hall is great, and the lamps are feeble, so none will know you there.
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