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At length she started violently, tossed the paper indignantly to the notary-general, and hastily wrote on a slip of paper these words: "Should medical skill or the mercy of Heaven restore my speech and faculty of hearing, I will abandon all claim to the estates and title of Riverola to my dear brother Francisco."
But the Count and Countess of Riverola shed many, many tears at the sad and untimely fate of the grand vizier. Time, however, smooths down all grief; and happiness again returned to the Riverola Palace.
Thus by the hour of sunset the ransom was paid. At an early hour on the ensuing morning, Francisco di Riverola and his beautiful, blushing bride quitted the chamber where they had passed the night in each other's arms, and repaired to the apartment where so many terrible mysteries had been revealed to them, and so many dreadful incidents had occurred on the preceding day.
O! if she should have survived that fatal night and if she should have again encountered my brother! Alas! thou perceivest, my Fernand, how necessary it is for me to quit the island on the first occasion which may serve for that purpose!" "And wouldst thou, Nisida," asked Wagner reproachfully, "place thyself as a barrier between the Count of Riverola and her whom he loves?"
But think not, O reader! that while thus diverting herself with trivialities of which you would scarcely have deemed the haughty imperious active disposition of Nisida of Riverola to be capable think not that her mind was altogether abstracted from unpleasant thoughts. No far, very far from that!
'You, or rather your master, the Count of Arestino, pays for this business, and so I am bound to obey you. 'Listen, then, resumed Antonio, 'the young Count of Riverola, whom I have traced to the cottage this evening, will no doubt be coming away about the time we shall all meet down there; and therefore we shall have nothing to do but to carry him off to the cave. 'Why is the Count of Arestino so hostile to young Riverola? demanded the man who had answered to the name of Lomellino.
Duras, and another in that of Signor Vivaldi himself, the testamentary document ordained that the estates of the late Andrea, Count of Riverola, should be held in trust by the notary-general and the physician, for the benefit of Francisco, who was merely to enjoy the revenues produced by the same until the age of thirty, at which period the guardianship was to cease, and Francisco was then to enter into full and uncontrolled possession of those immense estates.
Remember I took thee into my service at thine own solicitation I have no guarantee for thy fidelity, and I am influential to punish as well as rich to reward!" "Your lordship has bound me to you by ties of gratitude," responded Antonio, "for when discarded suddenly by the young Count of Riverola, I found an asylum and employment in your lordship's palace.
On the following day peace was formally concluded between the Ottomans and the knights of Rhodes, the latter consenting to surrender the island to the formidable invaders. An exchange of prisoners was the result, and Francisco, Count of Riverola, again found himself free within twenty-four hours after his capture.
"Suddenly I heard voices near me; and one of them appeared to be that of the Countess of Riverola but they were speaking in so subdued a tone that I was by no means confident in my suspicion. The voices approached; and a sentiment of curiosity, unaccountable at the time, as I believed Vitangela to be purity itself, impelled me to listen more attentively.
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