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Updated: May 4, 2025
'I heard something pass, when some one was admiring your work, he said, not looking at her. 'And this I think is St. Leocadia's day. 'I am very much obliged to you for remembering it, but I have sent my little parcel otherwise, so I need not trouble you. 'Ah! how stupid in me! I am very sorry. I beg your pardon, and he hurried off, looking as if very sorry were not a mere matter of course.
Hope! It was very hard that the good fortune and mere good nature of an indifferent person should push him where the quiet curate so much wished to be. Albinia would have liked to have had either a little impudence or a little tact to enable her to give a hint to Ulick to be less officious. St. Leocadia's feast was the 9th of December.
Finally, the one party went off exulting, and the other was left in desolation and woe. Rodolfo arrived at his own house without any impediment, and Leocadia's parents reached theirs heart-broken and despairing.
'That would be like chartering a steamer to send home a Chinese puzzle. 'No, indeed; I must go to Hadminster. Bear me witness, Sophy, Miss Goldsmith wants me to talk to the house agent. 'Mind, if you miss St. Leocadia's day, you will miss my aunt's fete. Mr. O'More succeeded in carrying off the little parcel.
I leave it to a more ingenious pen than mine to describe the gladness of all present; the embraces bestowed on Rodolfo by Leocadia's parents; the thanks they offered to Heaven, and to his father and mother; the congratulations on both sides; the astonishment of Rodolfo's companions who saw him so unexpectedly married to so charming a bride on the very night of his arrival; and above all, when they learned from the statement openly made by Doña Estafania, that Leocadia was the very person whose abduction her son had effected with their aid.
Just then Leocadia came to herself, and embracing the cross seemed changed into a sea of tears, and the gentleman remained in utter bewilderment, until his wife had repeated to him, from beginning to end, Leocadia's whole story; and he believed it, through the blessed dispensation of Heaven, which had confirmed it by so many convincing testimonies.
They now rushed into the supper room, and the parish priest, who was also with them, went up to the prostrate lady to see if she could by any signs make known that she repented of her sins in order that he might give her absolution; but instead of one fainting person he found two, for Rodolfo lay with his face on Leocadia's bosom.
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