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Circumstances of which it is needless now to inform you render it essential to my very peace and happiness that your marriage should be immediate. In a word, I have given my promise to Mr. Leslie, and I confidently leave it to the daughter of my House to redeem the pledge of her anxious and tender father." The letter dropped from Violante's hand. Randal approached, and restored it to her.
But I don't think she is a woman to be caught by mere rank and fortune! Do you? Why can't you speak?" "If you do not get her consent soon, I think she is lost to you," said Randal, slowly; and before Frank could recover his dismay, glided from the house. Violante's first evening at the Lansmeres had passed more happily to her than the first evening under the same roof had done to Helen.
Leslie, not liking this proposition, attempted to make himself still necessary by working on Riccabocca's fears as to that espionage on his retreat, which had been among the reasons that had hurried the sage into offering Randal Violante's hand.
Here, after our friend's flight, here is Peschiera's avowal of guilty passion; here, he swears that he had intrigued to ruin his benefactor, in order to pollute the home that had sheltered him. Ah, see how she answers! thank Heaven her own eyes were opened at last, and she scorned him before she died! She was innocent! I said so. Violante's mother was pure. Poor lady, this moves me!
In a word, they were well ready to stake Madame Violante's virtue on the toss of a coin, cross or pile, which is greatly to the honour of that fair lady. The truth is her Confessor, Brother Jean Turelure, was for ever upbraiding her. "Think you, madame," he would ask her, "that the blessed St.
Could Harley, with all his own expectations, be indifferent to such a prize? and no doubt he had learned Violante's rare beauty in his correspondence with Riccabocca. Thus considered, it seemed natural to Randal's estimate of human nature that Harley's more prudish scruples of honour, as regards what is due to women, could not resist a temptation so strong.
And Randal's probity being now clear to him, he repeated, with stately formalities, his previous offer of Violante's hand. "But," still falteringly sighed the provident and far-calculating Randal "but your only child, your sole heiress! Your lands, your principalities, to devolve on the child of an humble Englishman! I dare not believe it. Ah, would Violante were not your heiress!"
Leonard, I think you would rejoice at an occasion to serve your old friends, Dr. Riccabocca and his daughter?" "Serve them! Oh, yes." And there instantly returned to Leonard the recollection of Violante's words when, on leaving his quiet village, he had sighed to part from all those he loved; and the little dark-eyed girl had said, proudly, yet consolingly, "But to SERVE those you love!"
The door opened, and the Austrian prince, whom Harley had interested in the cause of Violante's father, entered, with the familiar step of a friend. "Have you discovered those documents yet?" said the prince.
Randal's description of Violante's personal appearance, and such suggestions as to her character and the motives most likely to influence her actions as that young lynx-eyed observer could bestow, were all that the count required of present aid from his accomplice. Meanwhile we return to Violante herself. We see her now seated in the gardens at Knightsbridge, side by side with Helen.
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