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Updated: June 12, 2025
She was sitting at the open fireplace in a dressing-gown of Petronilla's purchasing, and was drying the masses of her long, light hair. "Oh, Doctor von Kammacher!" she cried in slight alarm, and fixed her shimmering sea-green eyes upon the man standing there with eyes almost closed, breathing heavily, incapable of uttering a word.
It is, that you have enlightened me as to the value of solemn oaths on the lips of the Roman clergy. 'Your meaning, dear madam? asked Leander, with a look of bland disdain. 'You have the face to ask it, deacon, after Petronilla's words this morning? 'I feared they might mislead you. The lady Petronilla knows nothing of what has passed between us.
Despite Petronilla's protestations, a gentleman and a stately, rather gorgeously dressed lady had forced their way into Ingigerd's room. Frederick and Willy arrived just as the lady was trying to wake Ingigerd and raise her up in bed. "For Heaven's sake, child," she kept saying, "wake up for a second."
'I cannot, replied Basil, 'for I dare not leave Veranilda without protection, after what you have told me. 'Why, then, Venantius must come hither. Whilst the friends were thus conversing a courier rode forth from Surrentum towards Neapolis. He bore a letter whereof the contents were these: 'To the holy and reverend deacon Leander, Petronilla's humble salutation.
Not long after Petronilla's death Basil had been driven by his distress of mind to visit Gordian and Silvia, and to speak with them of this suspicion. He saw that, for all their human kindness, they were disposed rather, to approve than condemn the deacon's supposed action, and he had gone forth from them in scarce concealed bitterness.
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