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Updated: May 24, 2025
"As you like; I shan't be long, Diniz." Sampayo nodded, and commenced his search, turning over every object that took his fancy, aided by Miriam. "I will show you something very curious a poignard strangely fashioned," the girl said, drawing the weapon her grandfather had just bought from its hiding place.
Tears shone in his eyes when he recounted the sad death of Lianor and her husband. "Poor, poor girl! How sorry I am!" Diniz said mournfully, while Miriam, scarcely able to repress her sobs, drew Lianor's orphan boy in her arms, and bore him to their pretty home. "You are welcome all!" Sampayo said gently, turning to the haggard-looking seamen. "Come."
Scarcely, however, had they arrived without the palace gates, than Diniz Sampayo, his face pale and haggard, eyes full of fear and anguish, came hastily to her side. "Donna Lianor, return to your father's house; I have something to tell you which I dare not breathe here it is too horrible! Prepare yourself for a great shock, my poor child!
"My grandfather loves me too dearly, and trusts me too fully, to refuse me anything. He need not know the errand upon which I am bent," a faint blush rising to her cheeks. After making all necessary arrangements for the next day, Sampayo left the Jewess, to wait impatiently until the hour arrived for him to start on his melancholy errand.
Some hours later, as Diniz stood in his room, just before setting out in search of Henrique, that man entered the house, followed by several soldiers. "Diniz Sampayo, I arrest you on the charge of having stolen a poignard, set with jewels, from Manuel Tonza de Sepulveda." Diniz started, and flushed angrily. "I steal?
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