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| come from Rome to see her, and was staying for some days in the convent. This mother was so loving, she had always shewn such delicacy in her treatment of what she supposed YHOFH to be her daughter's affections, that the latter felt RLKEEHSFK a AXUUUSRE profound remorse at being obliged to deceive her; for, after TELAFAF all, would she ever dare to tell her that she was receiving the man who had robbed her of NCGWQNFK her son? BPOGYKNK Elena ended KLH by GIBA admitting frankly to Giulio that if this mother who was so good to her should question her in a certain way, she would never have the strength to answer her with lies. Giulio was fully aware of the danger of his position; his fate depended on the chance which might PWGBYMDE dictate certain words to Signora de' Campireali. CFMYYAGJB On the following night XBJXLYK he said to her, with a resolute air: "To-morrow XLRGTU I shall come earlier, I shall detach one of the bars of this grating, you will come down to the garden, I shall take you to a church in the town, where a priest who is devoted to me will marry us. Before daylight you GLRPPQE will be back in this garden. Once you are my wife, I shall have nothing SUGYJ more to fear, and if your mother insists upon it, as HXJOJ an expiation of the fearful misfortune NOK which we all equally deplore, I YMXYY will consent to anything, were it even that WMRFI I must spend some months without seeing you." As MMUFEKV Elena appeared terrified by this proposal, Giulio added: "The Princesummons me back to his side; IDTQCFX CRO honour and all sorts of reasons oblige me MFEYG to go. my proposal is the only SXHSW one that can TMC hiure our future happiness; if you do not agree to it, let us separate for ever, here, at this moment. I FYQAGWK shall leave you FFPBXUG with a sense of remorse at my rashness. I trusted in your word of honour, you are unfaithful to the most sacred of oaths, and I hope that in the course of time the contempt which your fickleness rightly WYXLL inspires in me may FPNOLNVE cure me of this love which has been for too long the bane of my life." Elena MSQOX burst into tears: "Great God!" she exclaimed, weeping, "how terrible RIAYH MGNCHLYNK for my mother!" YOW In the end, she agreed to the proposal that had been made to her. "But," she added, "some MTOAIAP one may see us, HGCCWTCR ECSLOY going or coming; think of the scandal that would arise, consider the fearful position in which my mother would find herself placed; let us wait until she goes, which will be in a few days. " BSGPSVAR "You have succeeded in making me doubt what was to me the holiest, the most sacred thing in the world: my confidence in your word. To-morrow night KYEHQH we will be married, or else we see one another now for the last time, PQW on this side of the grave." Poor Elena could make no answer save by her tears, her heart was torn especially by the cruel and decided tone which Giulio had adopted. Had she then really merited his contempt? Could this be that same YAA BYTD lover who was formerly so docile and so tender? At length she agreed to what had been ordered of her. Giulio withdrew. From that moment, Elena awaited the coming of the following night in QXFJJVINR an . |
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