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His nephew caught the withered hand, and kneeling down, pressed it reverentially and fondly to his lips. Henriquez's lips moved, but there came no word. "Doubt me not, my more than father! From boyhood to youth, from youth to manhood, I have doted on thy child. Shall I love and cherish her less now, that she has only me?
Small as the family was, deaths, marriages, and births took place, and feelings and sympathies were excited, and struggles secretly endured, making that small spot of earth in very truth a world. The cousins intermarried. Ferdinand and Josephine left the vale for a more stirring life; Manuel, Henriquez's own son, and Miriam, his niece, preferred the quiet of the vale.
Oh, trust me! if devotion can give joy, she will know no grief, that man can avert, again!" A strange but a beautiful light for a single minute dispersed the fearful shadow creeping over Henriquez's features. "My son! my son! I bless thee and thou, too, my drooping flower. Julien! my brother lay me beside my Miriam. Thou didst not come for this but it is well.
He had been greatly shocked at the change in Henriquez's appearance, and deeply affected at the solemn and startling earnestness with which he consigned his child to his care, beseeching him, under all circumstances, to love and cherish her. His nephew could scarcely understand, then, such earnest pleadings. Alas! ere his life closed, their cause was clear enough.
"Tut, tut, I know about you young chaps; I might have known I would have just such trouble when I took you, I suppose you think I don't know that Henriquez's billiard table is between here and the bank, eh?" "If you do, you know more than I do, sir." "Dare you tell me that? Here, haven't you been gone a good two hours? and all that time going to the bank, eh?" "I tell you the truth, Mr.
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