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Marguerite d'Alvarez, and such were some of the emotions she conveyed. Soon after this experience, I asked if I might have a personal talk with the artist whose singing had made such a deep impression upon me.
* Vauxhall. "True," said I, slowly. "What may be the name of the foreigner?" "Why complain not hereafter that I do not trust you in state matters I will indulge D'Alvarez Don Diego, a hidalgo of the best blood of Andalusia; and not unworthy of it, I fancy, in the virtues of fighting, though he may be in those of council. But Heavens! Devereux you seem ill!" "No, no! Have you ever seen this man?"
* Vauxhall. "True," said I, slowly. "What may be the name of the foreigner?" "Why complain not hereafter that I do not trust you in state matters I will indulge D'Alvarez Don Diego, a hidalgo of the best blood of Andalusia; and not unworthy of it, I fancy, in the virtues of fighting, though he may be in those of council. But Heavens! Devereux you seem ill!" "No, no! Have you ever seen this man?"
But for that circumstance I might not have learned of the retreat of Don Diego d'Alvarez in his last illness; I might never have renewed my love to Isora; and whatever had been her fate, destitution and poverty would have been a less misfortune than her union with me.
Yes, Morton, yes! pour forth upon me your bitterest execration, in me, in your brother, in the brother so dear to you, in the brother whom you imagined so passionless, so pure; so sinless, behold that Barnard, the lover, the idolatrous lover the foe, the deadly foe, of Isora d'Alvarez! Here the manuscript was defaced for some pages by incoherent and meaningless ravings.
The disguised name which the former assumed, the state reasons which D'Alvarez confessed that Barnard, or rather Gerald, had for concealment, and which proved, at least, that some state plot in which Gerald was engaged was known to the Spaniard, joined to those expressions of Montreuil, which did all but own a design for the restoration of the deposed line, and the power which I knew he possessed over Gerald, whose mind, at once bold and facile, would love the adventure of the intrigue, and yield to Montreuil's suggestions on its nature, these combined circumstances left me in no doubt upon a subject deeply interesting to the honour of our house, and the very life of one of its members.
Barnard, when he calls," said I, "that only through Count Morton Devereux will he hear of Don Diego d'Alvarez and the lady his daughter." "I will, your honour," said the landlady; and then looking at me more attentively, she added: "Bless me! now when you speak, there is a very strong likeness between yourself and Mr. Barnard."
Marguerite d'Alvarez: "In handling and training the voice, breathing is perhaps the most vital thing to be considered. To some breath control seems second nature; others must toil for it. With me it is intuition. Breathing is such an individual thing. With each person it is different, for no two people breathe in just the same way."
On the last day that I saw that fearful man, he said, 'I warn you, Isora d'Alvarez, that my love is far fiercer than hatred; I warn you that your bridals with Morton Devereux shall be stained with blood. Become his wife, and you perish!
The disguised name which the former assumed, the state reasons which D'Alvarez confessed that Barnard, or rather Gerald, had for concealment, and which proved, at least, that some state plot in which Gerald was engaged was known to the Spaniard, joined to those expressions of Montreuil, which did all but own a design for the restoration of the deposed line, and the power which I knew he possessed over Gerald, whose mind, at once bold and facile, would love the adventure of the intrigue, and yield to Montreuil's suggestions on its nature, these combined circumstances left me in no doubt upon a subject deeply interesting to the honour of our house, and the very life of one of its members.
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