| 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 AJVJR to be her daughter's affections, that the latter felt SPOTPYKWO a FJPRNOVS profound remorse at being obliged to deceive her; for, after MHLOYYH all, would she ever dare to tell her that she was receiving the man who had robbed her of RNJBLTUE her son? LJABJLBX Elena ended QMP by KAGH 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 VUQHLPIV dictate certain words to Signora de' Campireali. HWFLKBGPM On the following night QRQCDRA he said to her, with a resolute air: "To-morrow WGRHJY 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 QFVHMIY will be back in this garden. Once you are my wife, I shall have nothing UEJTL more to fear, and if your mother insists upon it, as UFNBW an expiation of the fearful misfortune ATO which we all equally deplore, I SVUMX will consent to anything, were it even that RTSBD I must spend some months without seeing you." As RSIPAWX Elena appeared terrified by this proposal, Giulio added: "The Princesummons me back to his side; CTELOQG VEJ honour and all sorts of reasons oblige me SGGJA to go. my proposal is the only EEOFX one that can IXA hiure our future happiness; if you do not agree to it, let us separate for ever, here, at this moment. I NRUXHWU shall leave you GYRKKID 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 SEJFY inspires in me may QLKSRRHW cure me of this love which has been for too long the bane of my life." Elena PSURG burst into tears: "Great God!" she exclaimed, weeping, "how terrible MMFWK CDJTPWCTP for my mother!" IDW In the end, she agreed to the proposal that had been made to her. "But," she added, "some JVIUQDM one may see us, BACTXUAM JHJTMO 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. " GGFDLBUT "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 GSEFDB we will be married, or else we see one another now for the last time, VGN 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 YJP SHMV 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 TWFESRSYB an . |
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