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My endeavors were, however, greatly assisted by the melancholy turn of her mind, and perhaps still more so by a faint hope that Jeronymo might still be living, and therefore would not appear. A want of confidence in the thing itself, or a doubt of my ability, was the only obstacle which I had not to contend with.
"'Have you invited him, and has he failed to come? asked the monk. It was the first time he had spoken. We looked at him in alarm. "'Alas! he is gone to a place from whence there is no return, answered the old man. 'Reverend father I you misunderstood me. My son Jeronymo is dead. "'Perhaps he only fears to appear in this company, replied the monk.
"'Have you invited him, and has he failed to come? asked the monk. It was the first time he had spoken. We looked at him in alarm. "'Alas! he is gone to a place from whence there is no return, answered the old man. 'Reverend father I you misunderstood me. My son Jeronymo is dead. "'Perhaps he only fears to appear in this company, replied the monk.
Grant's face remained inscrutable. "Really!" he said softly. "So that is Jeronymo de Samoval, eh? How very interesting. A great supporter of the British policy; therefore an altruist, since himself he is a sufferer by it; and I hear that he has become a great friend of O'Moy's." "He is at Monsanto a good deal certainly," Tremayne admitted. "Most interesting."
The consummation of his alliance with the house of Count C -tti required only that a name should be changed, for the object of the two families was equally accomplished, whether Antonia became the wife of Lorenzo or of Jeronymo.
Nor was it by any means the only skill he might have boasted, for Jeronymo de Samoval was in many things, a very subtle, supple gentleman.
"The departed Jeronymo appeared in the dress of a Moorish slave, with a deep wound in his neck.
The memory of my son Jeronymo! "Never, I believe, was any toast less heartily received. "'There is one glass still unemptied," said the marquis. 'Why does my son Lorenzo refuse to drink this friendly toast? "Lorenzo, trembling, received the glass from the hands of the monk; tremblingly he put it to his lips.
The consummation of his alliance with the house of Count C -tti required only that a name should be changed, for the object of the two families was equally accomplished, whether Antonia became the wife of Lorenzo or of Jeronymo.
Messengers were despatched after him, vessels were sent to sea in quest of him; no person had seen him. None of his servants were missed; he must, therefore, have gone alone. Night came on, and he did not appear. The next morning dawned; the day passed, the evening succeeded , Jeronymo came not.
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