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He exchanged a word or two with the mace-bearer and again turned to Tony. "You have been seen concealing a letter about your person " "And what of that?" says Tony furiously. "Gently, gently, my master. A letter handed to you by the page of Donna Polixena Cador. A black business! Oh, a very black business! This Cador is one of the most powerful nobles in Venice I beseech you, not a word, sir!
Polixena at this burst into tears, and Tony said to himself: "Why in heaven does she not bid me show the letter?" Then he remembered that it had no superscription, and that the words it contained, supposing them to have been addressed to himself, were hardly of a nature to disarm suspicion.
He glanced about the apartment and doffed his hat with mock ceremony to Polixena, who faced him like a princess.
"And if I refuse?" said he. The Count made a significant gesture. "I am not so foolish as to threaten a man of your mettle. But perhaps you are unaware what the consequences would be to the lady." Polixena, at this, struggling to her feet, addressed a few impassioned words to the Count and her father; but the latter put her aside with an obdurate gesture. The Count turned to Tony.
Tony heard the key turn in the lock, and found himself alone with Polixena. The girl had sunk into a chair, her face hidden, a picture of shame and agony. So moving was the sight that Tony once again forgot his own extremity in the view of her distress. He went and kneeled beside her, drawing her hands from her face.
"My father is a plain India merchant in the colony of Massachusetts but if you " "Oh, hush, I say! I don't know what your long words mean. But I bless you, bless you, bless you on my knees!" And she knelt before him, and fell to kissing his hands. He drew her up to his breast and held her there. "You are willing, Polixena?" he said. "No, no!" She broke from him with outstretched hands.
And they think you rich my father does, and the others I don't know why, unless you have shown your money too freely and the English are all rich, are they not? And oh, oh do you understand? Oh, I can't bear your eyes!" She dropped into a chair, her head on her arms, and Tony in a flash was at her side. "My poor child, my poor Polixena!" he cried, and wept and clasped her.
Tony heard the key turn in the lock, and found himself alone with Polixena. THE girl had sunk into a chair, her face hidden, a picture of shame and agony. So moving was the sight that Tony once again forgot his own extremity in the view of her distress. He went and kneeled beside her, drawing her hands from her face.
Not to put too fine a point on it, it is necessary that you should marry her within the hour." Tony, at this, for all his spirit, felt the blood run thin in his veins. He looked in silence at the threatening visages between himself and the door, stole a side-glance at the high barred windows of the apartment, and then turned to Polixena, who had fallen sobbing at her father's feet.
"The English Ambassador," Polixena added simply, "is a very handsome man." "I wish, madam, I were a better proxy!" She echoed his laugh, and then clapped her hands together with a look of anguish. "Fool that I am! How can I jest at such a moment? I am in dreadful trouble, and now perhaps I have brought trouble on you also Oh, my father! I hear my father coming!"
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