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I burst into tears, and pressing her to my breast promised I would do as she wished. Pauline wrote to her aunt and Oeiras that she would be in Lisbon in October, and that they should have further news of her when she reached Spain. She had plenty of money, and bought a carriage and engaged a maid, and these arrangements took up her time during the last week she spent with me.
She was angry with the minister for having sent her a cheque, thinking that he must be aware that she had been in need, but I soon brought her to see reason on this point, telling her that it was a very thoughtful and delicate proceeding on the part of Oeiras, and that he had merely lent-her the money, and not given it to her. Pauline was rich, and she was a high-minded woman.
As a matter of fact, he was only forty. He was the first to recover poise. He peered keenly into Lewis's face. "May I ask your name?" "My name is Lewis Leighton. And yours?" The stranger waved his hand impatiently. "Where are you going?" "I am on my way to Oeiras to seek employment," said Lewis. "To seek employment, eh?" said the stranger, thoughtfully.
"My history, which I have written down myself. Let us sit down:" Pauline's Story I Am Happy Pauline Leaves Me I am the only daughter of the unfortunate Count X o, whom Carvailho Oeiras killed in prison on suspicion of being concerned in the attempt on the king's life, in which the Jesuits were supposed to have had a hand.
"Though I did not imagine Oeiras to be a humane man, yet I thought he must have some sort of a heart; besides, by this extraordinary step and the firmness of my language, I hoped to appeal to his pride and to interest him in my favour. I felt sure that he would do me justice, if only to prove that he had not been unjust to my father.
"God's blessing be praised," answered Lewis. "I come from the hills. I go to Oeiras." "To Oeiras? We come thence. It is a long road, Oeiras." "I go to seek a merchant who will start me as a goat-skin-buyer. Do you know of any such?" "A goatskin-buyer? Friend, for almost every goat there is a goatskin-buyer. My brother is one, my father-in-law another.
The captain ended by asking his excellency for further orders with respect to the lady aforesaid. "Oeiras, feeling sure that the lady was myself, told the captain to take her to the convent of which my aunt was abbess, with a letter he had written. In this letter he told my aunt that he sent her her niece, and begged her to keep the girl securely till further orders.
I was right, as will be seen, and although I was but an inexperienced girl my instinct served me well. "Two days elapsed before I was waited on by a messenger from Oeiras, who begged the honour of a private interview with me. The messenger told me that the minister wished me to reply to all who pressed me to marry that I should not decide until I was assured that the princess desired the match.
This marriage will efface whatever shame may be attached to our flight; they will say, perhaps, that the count carried me off; but a girl is not carried off against her will, and Oeiras surely will not persecute me for having made the fortune of his favourite. As to our means of subsistence, till I get my rents, I can sell my diamonds, and they will realize an ample sum.
They said Lewis had been bound for Oeiras. A messenger was sent to Oeiras. He came back with the news that Lewis had never arrived there. He had been traced half-way. After that no one on the long straight trail had seen the boy. The wilderness had swallowed him. Dom Francisco came almost daily to see the Reverend Orme.
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