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  Speaker 1: This continual triumph lasted for many months, till at length
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  Speaker 1: a quarrel happening between the mother and the gossip at
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  Speaker 1: whose house she used to give the rendezvous to her admirers.
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  Speaker 1: That incensed Confidante in the precipitation of her anger promulgated
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  Speaker 1: the history of those secret meetings, and among the rest
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  Speaker 1: her interviews with Fathom were brought to light. The first
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  Speaker 1: people who hear news of this sort are generally those
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  Speaker 1: to whom they are most unwelcome. The German was soon
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  Speaker 1: apprized of his wife's frailty, and considered the two females
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  Speaker 1: of his house as a couple of devils incarnate, sent
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  Speaker 1: from Hell to exercise his patience. Yet in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of his displeasure, he found matter of consolation in being
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  Speaker 1: furnished with a sufficient reason for parting with his helpmate,
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  Speaker 1: who had for many years kept his family in disquiet. He, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: without hazarding a personal conference, sent proposals to her by
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  Speaker 1: a friend, which she did not think proper to reject, and,
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  Speaker 1: seeing himself restored to the dominion of his own house,
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  Speaker 1: exerted his sway so tyrannic that Wilhelmina became weary of
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  Speaker 1: her life and had recourse to the comforts of religion,
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  Speaker 1: of which she soon became enamored, and begged her father's
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  Speaker 1: permission to dedicate the rest of her life to the
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  Speaker 1: duties of devotion. She was accordingly received in this convent,
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  Speaker 1: the regulations of which were so much to her liking
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  Speaker 1: that she performed the task of probation with pleasure and
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  Speaker 1: voluntarily excluded herself from the vanities of this life. It
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  Speaker 1: was here she had contracted an acquaintance with Mademoiselle de Melville,
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  Speaker 1: to whom she communicated her complaints of fathom, on the
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  Speaker 1: supposition that he was related to the count, as he
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  Speaker 1: himself had often declared. While the young lady rehearsed the
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  Speaker 1: particulars of this detail, Rinaldo sustained a strange vicissitude of
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  Speaker 1: different passions. Surprise, sorrow, fear, hope, and indignation. Raised a
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  Speaker 1: most tumultuous conflict in his bosom. Monimia rushed upon his
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  Speaker 1: imagination in the character of innocence, betrayed by the insinuations
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  Speaker 1: of treachery, He with horror, viewed her at the mercy
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  Speaker 1: of a villain who had broken all the ties of
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  Speaker 1: gratitude and honor. Affrighted at the prospect, he started from
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  Speaker 1: his seat, exclaiming, in the most unconnected strain of distraction
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  Speaker 1: and despair, have I then nourished a serpent in my bosom?
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  Speaker 1: Have I listened to the voice of a traitor who
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  Speaker 1: hath murdered my peace, who hath tore my heart strings asunder,
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps ruined the pattern of all earthly perfection. It
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  Speaker 1: cannot be Heaven would not suffer such infernal artifice to
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  Speaker 1: take effect. The thunder would be leveled against the head
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  Speaker 1: of the accursed projector from this transport. Compared with his
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  Speaker 1: agitation when he mentioned Monimia, his sister judged that Fathom
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  Speaker 1: had been the occasion of a breach between the two lovers,
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  Speaker 1: and this conjecture being confirmed by the disjointed answers he
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  Speaker 1: made to her interrogations upon the affair. She endeavored to
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  Speaker 1: calm his apprehensions by representing that he would soon have
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity of returning to England, where the misunderstanding might
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  Speaker 1: be easily cleared up, and that in the meantime he
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to fear on account of the person of
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  Speaker 1: his mistress. In a country where individuals were so well
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  Speaker 1: protected by the laws and constitution of the realm. At length,
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  Speaker 1: he suffered himself to be flattered with the fond hope
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  Speaker 1: of seeing Monimia's character triumph in the inquiry, of retrieving
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  Speaker 1: that lost jewel, and of renewing that ravishing intercourse and
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  Speaker 1: exalted expectation which had been so cruelly cut off. He
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  Speaker 1: now wished to find fathom as black as he had
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  Speaker 1: been exhibited, that Monimia's apostasy might be numbered among the
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  Speaker 1: misrepresentations of his treachery and fraud. His love, which was
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  Speaker 1: alike generous and ardent, espoused the cause, and he no
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  Speaker 1: longer doubted her constancy and virtue. But when he reflected
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  Speaker 1: how her tender heart must have been rung with anguish
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  Speaker 1: at his unkindness and cruelty in leaving her destitute in
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  Speaker 1: a foreign land, How her sensibility must have been tortured
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  Speaker 1: in finding herself altogether dependent upon a ruffian who certainly
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  Speaker 1: harbored the most baleful designs upon her honor. How her
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  Speaker 1: life must be endangered both by his barbarity in her
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  Speaker 1: own despair. I say, when he reflected on these circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: He shuddered with horror and dismay, and that very night
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  Speaker 1: despatched a letter to his friend, the Jew, entreating him
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  Speaker 1: in the most pressing manner, to employ all his intelligence
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  Speaker 1: in learning the situation of the fair orphan, that she
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  Speaker 1: might be protected from the villainy of Fathom until his
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  Speaker 1: return to England. Chapter sixty. He recompenses the attachment of
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  Speaker 1: his friend and receives a letter that reduces him to
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  Speaker 1: the verge of death and distraction. This step, being taken,
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  Speaker 1: his mind, in some measure retrieved its former tranquility. He
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  Speaker 1: soothed himself with the prospect of a happy reconciliation with
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  Speaker 1: the divine Monemia, and his fancy was decoyed from every
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  Speaker 1: disagreeable presage by the entertaining conversation of his sister, with
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  Speaker 1: whom in two days he set out for Presburg, attended
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  Speaker 1: by his friend, the Major, who had never quitted him
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  Speaker 1: since their meeting at Brussels. Here they found Count Trebasi
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  Speaker 1: entirely rid of the fever which had been occasioned by
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  Speaker 1: his wound, and in a fair way of doing it well,
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  Speaker 1: a circumstance that afforded unspeakable pleasure to Melville, whose manner
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  Speaker 1: of thinking was such as would have made him unhappy.
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  Speaker 1: Could he have charged himself with the death of his
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  Speaker 1: mother's husband, howsoever criminal he might have been. The Count's
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  Speaker 1: ferocity did not return with his health. His eyes were
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  Speaker 1: opened by the danger he had incurred, and his sentiments
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  Speaker 1: turned in a new channel. He heartily asked pardon of
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  Speaker 1: Mademoiselle for the rigorous usage she had suffered from the
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  Speaker 1: violence of his temper, thanked Rinaldo for the seasonable lesson
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  Speaker 1: he had administered to him, and not only insisted upon
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  Speaker 1: being removed from the castle to a house of his
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  Speaker 1: own in Presbourg, but proffered to make immediate restitution of
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  Speaker 1: all the rents which he had unjustly converted to his
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  Speaker 1: own use. These things being settled in the most amicable manner,
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  Speaker 1: to the entire satisfaction of the parties concerned, as well
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  Speaker 1: as of the neighboring noblesse among whom the House of
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  Speaker 1: Melville was in universal esteem, Rinaldo resolved to solicit leave
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  Speaker 1: at the Imperial Court to return to England in order
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  Speaker 1: to investigate that affair of Monimia, which was more interesting
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  Speaker 1: than all the points he had hitherto adjusted. But before
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  Speaker 1: he quitted Presburg, his friend Ferrell, taking him aside one day,
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  Speaker 1: count said he will you give me leave to ask if,
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  Speaker 1: by my zeal and attachment for you, I have had
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  Speaker 1: the good fortune to acquire your esteem to doubt that esteem,
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  Speaker 1: replied Rinaldo, or to suspect my gratitude and honor, of
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  Speaker 1: which I must be utterly destitute before I lose the
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  Speaker 1: sense of those obligations I owe to your gallantry and friendship,
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  Speaker 1: obligations which I long for a proper occasion to repay. Well,
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  Speaker 1: then resume the major. I will deal with you like
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  Speaker 1: a downright Swiss and point out a method by which
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  Speaker 1: you may shift the load of obligation from your own
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  Speaker 1: shoulders to mine. You know my birth rank and expectations
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  Speaker 1: in the service, but perhaps you do not know that,
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  Speaker 1: as my expense has always unavoidably exceeded my income, I
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  Speaker 1: find myself a little out at elbows in my circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: and want to piece them up by mat trimony. Of
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  Speaker 1: those ladies with whom I think I have any chance
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  Speaker 1: of succeeding, Mademoiselle de Melville seems the best qualified to
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  Speaker 1: render my situation happy. In all respects. Her fortune is
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  Speaker 1: more than sufficient to disembarrass my affairs. Her good sense
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  Speaker 1: will be a seasonable check upon my vivacity. Her agreeable
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  Speaker 1: accomplishments will engage a continuation of affection and regard. I
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  Speaker 1: know my own disposition well enough to think I shall
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  Speaker 1: become a most dutiful and tractable husband, and shall deem
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  Speaker 1: myself highly honored in being more closely united to my
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  Speaker 1: dear Count de Melville, the son and representative of that
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  Speaker 1: worthy officer under whom my youth was formed. If you
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  Speaker 1: will therefore sanction my claim, I will forthwith begin my approaches,
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  Speaker 1: and doubt not under your auspices to bring the place
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  Speaker 1: to a capitulation. Rinaldo was pleased with the frankness of
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  Speaker 1: this declaration, approved of his demand, and desired him to
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  Speaker 1: depend upon his good offices with his sister, whom he
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  Speaker 1: sounded that same evening upon the subject, recommending the major
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  Speaker 1: to her favor as as a gentleman well worthy of
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  Speaker 1: her choice. Mademoiselle, who had never been exercised in the
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  Speaker 1: coquetries of her sex, and was now arrived at those
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  Speaker 1: years when the vanity of youth ought to yield to discretion,
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  Speaker 1: considered the proposal as a philosopher, and after due deliberation,
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  Speaker 1: candidly owned she had no objection to the match. Ferrell
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  Speaker 1: was accordingly introduced in the character of a lover after
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  Speaker 1: the permission of the Countess had been obtained, and he
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  Speaker 1: carried on his addresses in a usual form, so much
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  Speaker 1: to the satisfaction of all concerned in the event that
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  Speaker 1: a day was appointed for the celebration of his nuptials
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  Speaker 1: when he entered into peaceable possession of his prize. A
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  Speaker 1: few days after this joyful occasion, while Rinaldo was at Vienna,
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  Speaker 1: where he had been indulged with leave of absence for
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  Speaker 1: six months and employed in making preparations for his journey
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  Speaker 1: to Britain, he was one evening presented by his servant
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  Speaker 1: with a package from London, which he no sooner opened
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  Speaker 1: than he found enclosed a letter directed to him in
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  Speaker 1: the handwriting of Monimia. He was so much affected at
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  Speaker 1: sight of those wors well known characters that he stood
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  Speaker 1: motionless as a statue, eager to know the contents, yet
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  Speaker 1: afraid to peruse the billet. While he hesitated in this suspense,
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  Speaker 1: he chanced to cast his eye on the inside of
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  Speaker 1: the cover, and perceived the name of his Jewish friend
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom of a few lines, importing that the
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  Speaker 1: enclosed was delivered to him by a physician of his acquaintance,
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  Speaker 1: who had recommended it in a particular manner to his care.
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  Speaker 1: This intimation served only to increase the mystery and wet
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  Speaker 1: his impatience, And as he had the explanation in his hand,
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  Speaker 1: he summoned all his resolution to his aid, and, breaking
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  Speaker 1: the seal, began to read these words. Rinaldo will not
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  Speaker 1: suppose that this address proceeds from interested motives. When he
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  Speaker 1: learns that, before it can be presented to his view,
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  Speaker 1: the unfortunate monimia will be no more. Here the light
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  Speaker 1: forsook Rinaldo's eyes. His knees knocked together, and he fell
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  Speaker 1: at full length and sensible, on the floor. His valet,
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  Speaker 1: hearing the noise, ran into the apartment, lifted him upon
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  Speaker 1: a couch, and despatched a messenger for proper assistance, while
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  Speaker 1: he himself endeavored to recall his spirits by such applications
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  Speaker 1: as chance afforded. But before the count exhibited any signs
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  Speaker 1: of life, his brother in law entered his chamber by accident,
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  Speaker 1: And as soon as he recollected himself from the extreme
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  Speaker 1: confusion and concern produced by this melancholy spectacle, he perceived
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  Speaker 1: the fatal epistle, which Melville, though insensible, still kept within
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  Speaker 1: his grasp. Justly suspecting this to be the cause of
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  Speaker 1: that severe paroxysm, he drew near the couch and with
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  Speaker 1: difficulty read what is above rehearsed and the sequel to
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  Speaker 1: this effect. Yes, I have taken such measures as will
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  Speaker 1: prevent it from falling into your hands until after I
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  Speaker 1: shall have been released from a being embittered with inexpressible
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  Speaker 1: misery and anguish. It is not my intention, once loved
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  Speaker 1: and gnaw still too fondly remembered youth, to upbraid you
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  Speaker 1: as the source of that unceasing woe which hath been
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  Speaker 1: so long the sole inhabitant of my lonely bosom. I
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  Speaker 1: will not call you in constant or unkind. I dare
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  Speaker 1: not think you base or dishonorable. Yet I was abruptly
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  Speaker 1: sacrificed to a triumphant rival, before I had learned to
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  Speaker 1: bear such mortification, before I had overcome the prejudices which
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  Speaker 1: I had imbibed in my father's house, I was all
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  Speaker 1: at once abandoned to despair, to indigence, and distress, to
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  Speaker 1: the vile practices of a villain who I fear hath
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  Speaker 1: betrayed us. Both. What have not I suffered from the
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  Speaker 1: insults and vicious designs of that wretch whom you cherished
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  Speaker 1: in your bosom? Yet to these I owe this near
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  Speaker 1: approach to that goal of peace where the canker worm
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  Speaker 1: of sorrow will expire. Beware of that artful traitor, and oh,
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  Speaker 1: endeavor to overcome that levity of disposition, which, if indulged,
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  Speaker 1: will not only stain your reputation, but also debauch the
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  Speaker 1: good qualities of your heart. I release you, in the
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  Speaker 1: sight of Heaven, from all obligations. If I have been injured,
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  Speaker 1: Let not my wrongs be visited on the head out
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  Speaker 1: of Rinaldo, for whom shall be offered up the last
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  Speaker 1: fervent prayers of the hapless Monyemia. This letter was a
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  Speaker 1: clue to the labyrinth of Melville's distress. Though the Major
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  Speaker 1: had never heard him mention the name of this beauty,
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  Speaker 1: he had received such hints from his own wife as
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  Speaker 1: enabled him to comprehend the whole of the Count's disaster.
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  Speaker 1: By the administration of stimulating medicines, Rinaldo recovered his perception,
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  Speaker 1: but this was a cruel alternative considering the situation of
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts. The first word he pronounced was monymia, with
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  Speaker 1: all the emphasis of the most violent despair. He perused
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  Speaker 1: the letter and poured forth incoherent execrations against Fathom and himself.
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  Speaker 1: He exclaimed, in a frantic tone, she is lost, forever
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  Speaker 1: murdered by my unkindness. We are both undone by the
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  Speaker 1: infernal arts of Fathom. Execrable monster, restore her to my arms.
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  Speaker 1: If thou art not a fiend in reality, I will
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  Speaker 1: tear out thy false heart. So saying, he sprung upon
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  Speaker 1: his valet, who would have fallen a sacrifice to his
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  Speaker 1: undistinguishing fury, had not he been saved by the interposition
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  Speaker 1: of Ferrell and the family, who disengaged him from his
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  Speaker 1: master's gripe by dinner force. Yet, notwithstanding their joint endeavors,
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  Speaker 1: he broke from this restraint, leaped upon the floor, and,
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  Speaker 1: seizing his sword, attempted to plunge it in his own breast.
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  Speaker 1: When he was once more overcome by numbers, he cursed
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  Speaker 1: himself and all those who withheld him, swore he would
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  Speaker 1: not survive. The fair victim, who had perished by his
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  Speaker 1: credulity and indiscretion, and the agitation of his spirits increased
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  Speaker 1: to such a degree that he was seized with strong
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  Speaker 1: convulsions which nature was scarce able to sustain. Every medical
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  Speaker 1: expedient was used to quiet his perturbation, which at length
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  Speaker 1: yielded so far as to subside into a continual fever
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  Speaker 1: and confirmed delirium, during which he ceased not to pour
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  Speaker 1: forth the most pathetic complaints touching his ruined love, and
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  Speaker 1: to rave about the ill starred Monymia. The major half,
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  Speaker 1: distracted by the calamity of his friend, would have concealed
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  Speaker 1: it from the knowledge of his family, had not the physician,
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  Speaker 1: by despairing of his life, laid him under the necessity
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  Speaker 1: of making them acquainted with his condition. The Countess and
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  Speaker 1: Missus Ferrell were no sooner informed of his case than
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  Speaker 1: they hastened to the melancholy scene, where they found Rinaldo,
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  Speaker 1: deprived of his senses, panting under the rage of an
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  Speaker 1: exasperated disease. They saw his face distorted and his eyes
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  Speaker 1: glaring with frenzy. They heard him invoke the name of Monimia,
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  Speaker 1: with a tenderness of accent which even the impulse of
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  Speaker 1: madness could not destroy. Then, with a sudden transition of
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  Speaker 1: tone and gesture, he denounced vengeance against her betrayer, and
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  Speaker 1: called upon the north wind to cool the fervor of
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  Speaker 1: his brain. His hair hung in disheveled parcels, his cheeks
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  Speaker 1: were wan, his looks ghastly, His vigor was fled, and
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  Speaker 1: all the glory of his youth faded. The physician hung
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  Speaker 1: his head in silence. The attendants wrung their hands in despair,
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  Speaker 1: and the countenance of his friend was bathed in tears.
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  Speaker 1: Such a pick would have moved the most obdurate heart.
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  Speaker 1: What impression, then, must it have made upon apparent and sister?
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  Speaker 1: Melting with all the enthusiasm of affection. The mother was struck,
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  Speaker 1: dumb and stupefied with grief. The sister threw herself on
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  Speaker 1: the bed in a transport of sorrow, caught her loved
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  Speaker 1: Rinaldo in her arms, and was with great difficulty torn
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  Speaker 1: from his embrace. Such was the dismal reverse that overtook
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  Speaker 1: the late, so happy family of Melville. Such was the
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  Speaker 1: extremity to which the treachery of fathom had reduced his
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  Speaker 1: best benefactor. Three days did nature struggle with surprising efforts,
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  Speaker 1: and then the constitution seemed to sink under the victorious fever. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: as his strength diminished, his delirium abetted, and on the
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  Speaker 1: fifth morning he looked round and recognized his weeping friends.
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  Speaker 1: Though now exhausted to the lowest ebb of life, he
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  Speaker 1: retained the perfect use of speech, and his reason, being
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  Speaker 1: quite unclouded, spoke to each with equal kindness and composure.
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  Speaker 1: He congratulated himself upon the side of shore. After the
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  Speaker 1: horrors of such at tents, impest called upon the Countess
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  Speaker 1: and his sister, who were not permitted to see him
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  Speaker 1: at such a conjuncture, and, being apprized by the major
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  Speaker 1: of his reason for excluding them from his presence, he
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  Speaker 1: applauded his concern, bequeathed them to his future care, and
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  Speaker 1: took leave of that gentleman with a cordial embrace. Then
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  Speaker 1: he desired to be left in private with a certain
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  Speaker 1: clergyman who regulated the concerns of his soul, And he,
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  Speaker 1: being dismissed, turned his face from the light in expectation
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  Speaker 1: of his final discharge. In a few minutes, all was
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  Speaker 1: still and dreary. He was no longer heard to breathe,
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  Speaker 1: no more the stream of life was perceived to circulate.
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  Speaker 1: He was supposed to be absolved from all his cares,
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  Speaker 1: and a universal groan from the bystanders announced the decease
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  Speaker 1: of the gallant, generous, and tender hearted Rinaldo come hither,
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  Speaker 1: ye whom the pride of youth and health, of birth,
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  Speaker 1: and affluence in flames, who tread the flowery maze of pleasure,
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  Speaker 1: trusting to the fruition of ever circling joys, Ye, who
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  Speaker 1: glory in your accomplishments, who indulged the views of ambition
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  Speaker 1: and lay schemes for future happiness and grandeur, contemplate here
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  Speaker 1: the vanity of life. Behold how low this excellent young
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  Speaker 1: man is laid mowed down, even in the blossom of
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  Speaker 1: his youth, when fortune seemed to open all her treasures
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  Speaker 1: to his worth. Such were the reflections of the generous Pharaoh, who,
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  Speaker 1: while he performed the last office of friendship, in closing
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of the much lamented Melville, perceived a warmth
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  Speaker 1: on the skin which the hand of death seldom leaves unextinguished.
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  Speaker 1: This uncommon sensation. He reported to the physician, who, though
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  Speaker 1: he could feel no pulsation of the heart or arteries,
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  Speaker 1: conjectured that life still lingered in some of its interior haunts,
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  Speaker 1: and immediately ordered such applications to the extremities and surface
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  Speaker 1: of the body as might help to concentrate and reinforce
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  Speaker 1: the natural heat. By these prescriptions, which for some time
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  Speaker 1: produced no sensible effect, the embers were in all probability
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  Speaker 1: kept glowing, and the vital power revived. For after a
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  Speaker 1: considerable pause, respiration was gradually renewed. At long intervals, a
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  Speaker 1: languid motion was perceived at the heart. A few feeble
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  Speaker 1: and irregular pulsations were felt at the wrist. The clay
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  Speaker 1: colored livery of death began to vanish from his face.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: The circulation acquired new force, and he opened his eyes
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: with a sigh, which proclaimed his return from the shades
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: of death. When he recovered the faculty of swallowing, a
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: cordial was administered, and whether the fever abedded in consequence
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: of the bloods being cooled and condensed during the recess
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: of action in the solids, or nature in that agony
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: had prepared a proper channel for the expulsion of the disease.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Certain it is he was from this moment rid of
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: all bodily pain. He retrieved the animal functions, and nothing
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: remained of his malady but an extreme weakness and languor,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the effect of nature's being fatigued in the battle she
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: had won. Unutterable was the joy that took possession of
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: his mother and sister when Pharaoh flew into her apartment
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: to intimate this happy turn. Scarce could they be restrained
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: from pouring forth their transports in the presence of Rinaldo,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: who was still too feeble to endure such communication. Indeed,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: he was extremely mortified and dejected at this event, which
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: had diffused such pleasure and satisfaction among his friends. For
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: though his distemper was mastered, the fatal cause of it
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: still rankled at his heart, and he considered this respite
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: from death as a protraction of his misery. When he
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: was congratulated by the Major on the triumph of his constitution,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: he replied with a groan, I would to heaven it
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: had been otherwise, for I am reserved for all the
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: horrors of the most poignant sorrow and remorse. O monymia, monymia,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I hoped by this time to have convinced thy gentle
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: shade that I was at least intentionally innocent of that
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: ruthless barbarity which hath brought thee to an untimely grave
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Heaven and Earth. Do I still survive the consciousness of
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: that dire catastrophe and lives the atrocious villain who hath
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: blasted all our hopes with these last words? The fire
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: darted from his eyes, and his brother, snatching this occasional
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: handle for reconciling him to life, joined in his exclamations
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: against the treacherous fathom, and observed that he should, not,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: in point of honor, wish to die until he should
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: have sacrificed that traitor to the manies of the beauteous monimia.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: This incitement acted as a spur upon exhausted nature, causing
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the blood to circulate with fresh vigor, and encouraging him
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: to take such sustenance as would recruit his strength and
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: repair the damage which his health had sustained. His sister
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: assiduously attended him in his recovery, flattering his appetite and
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: amusing his sorrow. At the same time, the clergyman assailed
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: his despondence with religious weapons as well as with arguments
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: drawn from philosophy, and the fury of his passions being
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: already expended, he became so tractable as to listen to
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: his remonstrances. But notwithstanding the joint endeavors of all his friends,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: a deep, fixed melancholy remained. After every consequence of his
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: disease had vanished. In vain, they essays to elude his
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: grief by gaiety and diversions. In vain, they tried to
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: decoy his heart into some new engagement. These kind attempts
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: served only to feed and nourish that melancholy which pined
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: within his bosom. Monimia still haunted him in the midst
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: of these amusements, while his reflection whispered to him pleasures
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: like these I might have relished. With her participation, that
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: darling idea mingled in all the female assemblies at which
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: he was present, eclipsing their attractions and enhancing the bitterness
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: of his loss. For absence, enthusiasm, and even his despair
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: had heightened the charms of the fair orphan into something
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: supernatural and divine. Time that commonly weakens the traces of
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: remembrance seemed to deepen its impressions in his breast. Nightly,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: in his dreams did he converse with his dear Monymia,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: sometimes on the verdant bank of a delightful stream, where
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: he breathed in soft murmurs that dictates of his love
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: and admiration. Sometimes reclined within the tufted grove, his arm
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: encircled and sis stained her snowy neck, whilst she, with
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: looks of love ineffable, gazed on his face, invoking Heaven
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: to bless her husband and her lord. Yet even in
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: these illusions was his fancy oft alarmed for the ill
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: fated fare. Sometimes he viewed her tottering on the brink
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: of a steep precipice, far distant from his helping hand.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: At other times she seemed to sail along the boisterous tide,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: imploring his assistance. Than would he start with horror from
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: his sleep and feel his sorrows more than realized. He
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: deserted his couch, He avoided the society of mankind. He
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: courted sequestered shades, where he could indulge his melancholy. There
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: his mind brooded over his calamity, until his imagination became
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: familiar with all the ravages of death. It contemplated the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: gradual decline of monimious health, her tears, her distress, her
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: despair at his imagined cruelty. He saw through that perspective
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: every blossom of her beauty, wither every sparkle vanished from
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: her eyes. He beheld her faded lips, her pale cheek,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: and her inanimate features, the symmetry of which not death
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: itself was able to destroy. His fancy conveyed her breathless
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: course to the cold grave o'er which perhaps no tear
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: humane was shed, where her delicate limbs were consigned to dust,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: where she was dished out a delicious banquet to the
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: unsparing worm. Over these pictures he dwelt with a sort
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: of pleasing anguish, until he became so enamored of her
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: tomb that he could no longer resist the desire that
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: compelled him to make a pilgrimage to the dear hallowed
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: spot where all his once gay hopes lay buried, that
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: he might nightly visit the silent habitation of his ruined
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: love embraced the sacred earth with which she was now compounded,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: moisten it with his tears and bid the turfly easy
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: on her breast. Besides the prospect of this gloomy enjoyment,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: he was urged to return to England by an eager
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: desire of taking vengeance on the perfidious Fathom, as well
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: as of acquitting himself of the obligations he owed in
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: that kingdom to those who had assisted him in his distress.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: He therefore communicated his intention to Ferrell, who would have
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: insisted upon attending him in the journey had not he
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: been conjured to stay and manage Rinaldo's affairs in his absence,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: every previous step being taken, he took leave of the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Countess and his sister, who had, with all their interest
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: and elocution, opposed his design, the execution of which they
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: justly feared, would, instead of dissipating, augment his chagrin. And,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: now seeing him determined, they shed a flood of tears
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: at his departure, and he set out from Vienna in
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: a post chaise, accompanied by a trusty valetd chamber on horseback.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Chapter sixty one, Rinaldo meets with a living monument of
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: justice and encounters a personage of some note in these memoirs,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: as this domestic was very well qualified for making all
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the proper dispositions and adjusting every necessary article on the road,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Rinaldo totally abstracted himself from earthly considerations and mused without
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: ceasing on that theme which was the constant subject of
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: his contemplation. He was blind to the objects that surrounded him.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: He scarce ever felt the importunities of nature, and had
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: not they been reinforced by the pressing entreaties of his attendant,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: he would have proceeded without refreshment or repose. In this
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: absence of mind did he traverse a great part of
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Germany in his way to the Austrian Netherlands, and arrived
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: at the fortress of Luxembourg, where he was obliged to
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: tarry a whole day on account of an accident which
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: had happened to his chaise. Here he went to view
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the fortifications, and as he walked along the ramparts, his
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: ears were saluted with these words, Heaven blessed the noble
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Count de Melville, Will not he turn the eyes of
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: compassion on an old fellow soldier reduced to misfortune and disgrace.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Surprised at this address, which was attended with the clanking
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: of chains, Rinaldo lifted up his eyes and perceived the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: person who spoke to be one of two malefactors shackled
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: together who had been sentenced for some crime to work
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: as labors on the fortifications. His face was so covered
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: with hair, and his whole appearance so disguised by the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: squalid habit which he wore, that the Count could not
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: recollect his features until he gave him to understand that
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: his name was Ratchcally Melville immediately recognized his fellow student
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: at Vienna and his brother volunteer upon the Rhine, and
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: expressed equal surprise and concern at seeing him in such
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: a deplorable situation. Nothing renders the soul so callous and
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: insensible as the searing brands of infamy and disgrace, without
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: betraying the least symptoms of shame or confusion. Count says he,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: this is the fate of war, at least of the
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: war in which I have been engaged, ever since I
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: took leave of the Imperial Army and retreated with your
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: old companion. Fathom long life to that original genius, if
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: he is not unhappily eclipsed by some unfortunate interposition, before
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: his tarien parts are purified, I foresee that he will
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: shine a star of the first magnitude in the world
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: of adventure. At mention of this detested name, Rinaldo's heart
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: began to throb with indignation. Yet he suppressed the emotion
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: and desired to know the meaning of that splendid andcomium
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: which he had bestowed upon his confederate. It would be
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: quite unnecessary, replied ratchcally, for a man in my present
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: situation to equivocate or disguise the truth. The nature of
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: my disgrace is perfectly well known. I am condemned to
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: hard labor for life, and unless some lucky accident, which
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I cannot now foresee, shall intervene, all I can expect
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: is some alleviation of my hard lot from the generosity
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: of such gentlemen as you, who compassionate the sufferings of
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: your fellow creatures. In order to engage your benevolence the
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: more in my behalf, I shall, if you will give
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: me the hearing, faithfully, inform you of some particulars which
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: it may import you to know concerning my old acquaintance, Ferdinand,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Count Fathom, whose real character hath perhaps hitherto escaped your notice.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Then he proceeded to give a regular detail of all
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the strokes of finesse which he, in conjunction with our adventure,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: had practiced upon Melville and others during their residence at Vienna,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: and the campaigns they had made upon the Rhine. He
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: explained the nature of the robbery which was supposed to
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: have been done by the Count's valet, together with the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: manner of their desertion. He described his separation from Fathom,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: their meeting at London, the traffic they carried on in
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: co partnership, and the misfortune that reduced Ferdinand to the
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: condition in which he was found by Melville. After having
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: gratified the honest lawyer said he with a share of
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the unfortunate Fathom's spoils, and packed up all my own
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: valuable effects my new auxiliary. Maurice and I posted to Harwich,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: embarked in the packet boat, and next day arrived at
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Helvoetz Luise. From thence we repaired to the Hague, in
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: order to mingle in the gaieties of the place and
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: exercise our talents at play, which is there cultivated with
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: universal eagerness. But chancing to meet with an old acquaintance
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: whom I did not at all desire to see. I
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: found it convenient to withdraw softly to Rotterdam. From whence
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: we set out for Antwerp, and, having made a tour
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: of the Austrian Netherlands, set up our rest at Brussels,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: and concerted a plan for laying the Flemings under contribution.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: From our appearance. We procured admission into the most polite assemblies,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: and succeeded to a wonder in all our operations, until
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: our career was unfortunately checked by the indiscretion of my ally, who,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: being detected in the very act of conveying a card,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: was immediately introduced to a magistrate. And this Minister of
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Justice was so curious, inquisitive and clear sighted that Count Maurice,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: finding it impossible to elude his penetration, was fain to
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: stipulate for his own safety by giving up his friend
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: to the cognizance of the law. I was accordingly apprehended
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: before I knew the cause of my arrest, and being
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: unhappily known by some soldiers of the Prince's Guard, my
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: character turned out so little to the approbation of the inquisitors,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: that all my effects were confiscated for the benefit of
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the state, and I was, by a formal sentence condemned
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: to labor on the fortifications all the days of my life,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: while Maurice escaped at the expense of five hundred stripes,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: which he received in public from the hands of the
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: common executioner. Thus have I, without evasion or mental reservation,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: given a faithful account of the steps by which I
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: have arrived at this barrier, which is likely to be
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: the any plus ultra of my peregrinations, unless the generous
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Count de Melville will deign to interpose his interest in
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: behalf of an old fellow soldier who may yet live
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: to justify his mediation. Rinaldo had no reason to doubt
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the truth of this story, every circumstance of which tended
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: to corroborate the intelligence he had already received, touching the
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: character of Fathom, whom he now considered with a double
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: portion of abhorrence, as the most abandoned miscreant that nature
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: had ever produced. Though ratchically did not possess a much
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: higher place in his opinion, he favored him with marks
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: of his bounty, and exhorted him if possible to reform
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: his heart, but he would, by no means promise to
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: interpose his credit in favor of a wretched self. Convicted
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: of such enormous Villanian fraud. He could not help moralising
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: upon this ncanter, which inspired him with great contempt for
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: human nature, And next day he proceeded on his journey
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: with a heavy heart, ruminating on the perfidy of mankind,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and between wiles transported with the prospect of revenging all
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: his calamities upon the accursed offer. While he was wrapped
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: up in these reveries, his carriage rolled along and had
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: already entered a wood between Mons and Ternay, when his
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: dream was suddenly interrupted by the explosion of several pistols
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: that were fired among the thickets at a little distance
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: from the road. Roused at this alarm, he snatched his
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: sword that stood by him, and, springing from the chaise,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: ran directly towards the spot, being close followed by his valet,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: who had alighted and armed himself with a pistol in
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: each hand. About forty yards from the highway, they arrived
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: in a little glade or opening, where they saw a
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: single man standing at bay against five banditti, after having
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: killed one of their companions and lost his own horse
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: that lay dead upon the ground. Melville, seeing this odds
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: and immediately guessing their desire, rushed among them without hesitation,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and in an instant ran his sword through the heart
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: of one whose hand was raised to smite the gentleman behind,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: while he was engaged with the rest in front. At
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the same time, the valet disabled another by a shot
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: in the shoulder, so that the number being now equal
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: on both sides, A furious combat ensued, every man being
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: paired with an antagonist, and each having recourse to swords,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: as all their pieces had been discharged. Rinaldo's adversary, finding
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: himself pressed with equal fury and skill, retreated gradually among
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the trees until he vanished altogether into the thickest of
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: the wood, and his two companions followed his example with
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: great ease, the valet the chamber being heard in the leg,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: and the stranger so much exhausted by the wounds he
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: had received before Rinaldo's interposition, that when the young gentleman
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: approached to congratulate him on the defeat of the robbers,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: he in advancing to embrace his deliver dropped down motionless
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: on the grass. The count, with that warmth of sympathy
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: and benevolence which was natural to his heart, lifted up
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: the wounded cavalier in his arms and carried him to
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: the chaise in which he was deposited, while the valeted
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: chamber reloaded his pistols and prepared for a second attack,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: as they did not doubt that the Banditi would return
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: with a reinforcement. However, before they reappeared, Rinaldo's driver disengaged
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: him from the wood, and in less than a quarter
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: of an hour they arrived at a village, where they
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: halted for assistance to the stranger, who, though still alive,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: had not recovered the use of his senses. After he
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: was undressed and laid in a warm bed, a surgeon
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: examined his body and found a wound in his neck
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: by a sword, and another in his right side occasioned
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: by a pistol shot, so that his prognostic was very dubious. Meanwhile,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: he applied proper dressings to both, and in half an
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: hour after this administration, the gentleman gave some tokens of perception.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: He looked around him with a wildness of fury in
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: his aspect, as if he had thought himself in the
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: hands of the robbers by whom he had been attacked.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: But when he saw the assiduity with which the bystanders
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: exerted themselves in his behalf, one raising his head from
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the pillow, while another exhorted him to swallow a little wine,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: which was warm for the purpose. When he beheld the
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: sympathizing looks of all present, and hurt himself accosted in
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the most cordial terms by the person whom he recollected
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: as his deliver, all the severity vanished from his countenance.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: He took Rinaldo's hand and pressed it to his lips,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: and while the tears gushed from his eyes, praised be God,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: said he that virtue and generosity are still to be
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: found among the sons of men. Everybody in the apartment
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: was affected by this exclamation, and Melville, above all the rest,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: felt such emotions as he could scarcely restrain. He entreated
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the gentleman to believe himself in the midst of such
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: friends as would effectually secure him from all violence and mortification.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: He conjured him to compose the perturbation of his spirits
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: and quiet the apprehensions of his mind with that reflection,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: and protested that he himself would not quit the house
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: while his attendants should be deemed necessary for the stranger's
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: cure or his conversation conducive to his amusement. These assurances,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: considered with the heroic part which the young Hungarian had
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: already acted in his behalf, inspired the cavalier with such
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: a sublime idea of Melville that he gazed upon him
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: with silent astonishment as an angel sent from heaven for
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: his succor, and in the transport of his gratitude, could
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: not help exclaiming sure providence hath still something in reserve
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: for this unfortunate wretch, in whose favor such a miracle
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: of courage and generosity hath interposed, being accommodated with proper
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: care and attendance his constitution. In a little time overcame
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the fever, and at the third dressing the surgeon declared
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: him out of all danger from his wounds. Then was
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Rinaldo indulged with opportunities of conversing with the patient and
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: of inquiring into the particulars of his fortune and designs
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: in life, with a view to manifest the inclination he
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: felt to serve him in his future occasions. The more
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: this stranger contemplated the character of the count, the more
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: his amazement increased on account of his extraordinary benevolence in
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: favor of a person whose merit he could not possibly know.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: He even expressed his surprise on this subject to Rinaldo,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: who at length told him that although his best offices
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: should always be ready for the occasions of any gentleman
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: in distress, his particular attachment and regard to him was
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: improved by an additional consideration. I am no stranger, said
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: he to the virtues and honor of the gallant Don
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Diego de Zealous Heaven and Earth, cried the stranger, starting
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: from his seat with extreme emotion. Do I then live
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: to hear myself addressed by that long lost appellation? My
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: heart glows at the expression. My spirits are kindled with
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: a flame that thrills through every nerve, say, young gentleman,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: if you are really an inhabitant of earth, by what
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: means are you acquainted with the unhappy name of Zealous.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: In answer to this eager interrogation, Rinaldo gave him to
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: understand that, in the course of his travels, he had
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: resided a short time at Seville, where he had frequently
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: seen Don Diego and often heard his character mentioned with
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: uncommon esteem and veneration. Alas replied the Castilian, that justice
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: is no longer done to the wretched zealous, his honors
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: are blasted, and his reputation canker bitten by the venomous
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: tooth of slander. He then proceeded to unfold his misfortunes,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: as they have already been explained in the former part
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: of these memoirs, at the recapitulation of which the heart
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: of Melville, being intended by his own calamities, was so
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: deeply affected that he re echoed the groans of Don
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Diego and wept over his sufferings with the most filial sympathy.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: When he repeated the story of that cruel fraud which
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: was practiced upon him by the faithless Fadini, Melvo, whose
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: mind and imagination teemed with the villanes of fathom, was
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: immediately struck with the conjecture of his being the knave,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: because indeed, he could not believe that any other person
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: was so abandoned by principle and humanity as to take
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: such a barbarous advantage of a gentleman in Distress, Chapter
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: sixty two, his return to England and midnight pilgrimage to
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Monimia's tomb. He considered the date of that unparalleled transaction
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: which agreed with his conjecture, and from the inquiries he
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: made concerning the person of the traitor, gathered reason sufficient
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: to confirm his supposition. Thus certified that is the villain,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: cried the count whose infernal arts have overwhelmed me with
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: such misery as Heaven itself, hath made no remedy to
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: dispel to revenge my wrongs on that perfidious miscreant. Is
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: one of the chief reasons for which I deign to
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: drag about an hateful being. O don diego, What is
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: life when all its enjoyments are so easily poisoned by
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: the machinations of such a worm? So saying, he smote
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: his breast in all the agony of woe, and besought
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: the Spaniard to relate the steps he took in consequence
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: of this disaster. The Qustidcellian's cheeks reddened at this information,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: which enforced his own resentment, and casting up his eyes
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: to heaven sacred powers cried, he let him not perish
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: before you bring him within my reach. You ask me,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: noble cavalier, what measures I took in this abyss of misery.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: For the first day I was tortured with apprehensions for
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: the friendly Fadini, fearing that he had been robbed and
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: murdered for the jewels which he had, perhaps too unwarily
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: exposed to sail. But this terror soon vanished before the
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: true presages of my fate, when on the morrow I
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: found the whole family in tears and confusion, and heard
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: my landlord pour forth the most bitter imprecations against the
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: fugitive who had deflowered his daughter and even robbed the house.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: You will ask which of the passions of my heart
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: were interested on this occasion. They were shame and indignation.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: All my grief flowed in another channel. I blushed to
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: find my judgment deceived. I scorned to complain, but in
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: my heart denounced vengeance again my base betrayer. I silently
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: retired to my apartment in order to commune with my
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: own thoughts. I had borne greater calamities without being driven
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: to despair. I summoned all my fortitude to my assistance,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: and resolved to live in spite of affliction. Thus determined,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: I betook myself to the house of a general officer
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: whose character was fair in the world, and having obtained
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: admission in consequence of my oriental appearance to a man
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: of honor, said I, the unfortunate need no introduction. My
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: habit proclaims me a Persian. This passport from the States
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: of Holland will confirm that supposition. I had been robbed
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: of jewels to a considerable value by a wretch whom
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I favored with my confidence, and now reduced to extreme indigence,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: I come to offer myself as a soldier in the
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: armies of France. I have health and strength sufficient to
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: discharge that duty. Nor am I unacquainted with a military life,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: which was once my glory and occupation. I therefore sue
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: for your protection, that I may be received though in
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: the lowest order of them that served the king, and
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: that your future favor may depend upon my behavior in
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: that capacity. The General, surprised at my declaration, surveyed me
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: with uncommon attention. He perused my certificate, asked divers questions
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: concerning the art of war, to which I returned such
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: answers as convinced him that I was not wholly ignorant
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: in that particular. In short, I was enlisted as a
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: volunteer in his own regiment, and soon after promoted to
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: the rank of a subaltern and the office of equery
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: to his own son, who at that time had attained
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: to the degree of colonel. Though his age did not
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: exceed eighteen years. This young man was naturally of a
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: ferocious disposition, which had been rendered quite untractable by the
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: pride of birth and fortune, together with the license of
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: his education. As he did not know the respect due
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: to a gentleman, so he could not possibly pay it
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: to those who were, unfortunately under his command divers mortifications.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: I sustained with that fortitude, which became a Castilian who
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: lay under obligations to the father till at length, laying
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: aside all decorum. He smote me, sacred Heaven. He smote
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Don Diego de zealous, in presence of his whole household.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Had my sword been endowed with sensation, it would of
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: itself have started from its scabbard at this indignity offered
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: to its master. I unsheathed it without deliberation, saying no
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: insolent boy. He is a gentleman whom thou hast outraged,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: and thou hast thus canceled the ties which have hitherto
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: restrained my indignation. His servants would have interposed, but he
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: commanded them to retire, and, flushed with that confidence which
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: the impetuosity of his temper inspired, he drew in his
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: turn and attacked me with redoubled rage, But his dexterity
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: being very unequal to his courage, he was soon disarmed
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: and overthrown. When pointing my sword to his breast, in
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: consideration of thy youth and ignorance, said I I spare
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: that life which thou hast forfeited by thy ungenerous presumption.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: With these words, I put up my weapon, retired through
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: the midst of his domestics, seeing their master safe, did
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: not think proper to oppose my passage, and mounting my horse,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: in less than two hours, entered the Austrian Dominions, resolving
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: to proceed as far as Holland that I might embark
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: in the first ship for Spain in order to wash
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: away with my own blood or that of my enemies,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: the cruel stain which hath so long defiled my reputation.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: This was the grievance that still corroded my heart and
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: rendered ineffectual the inhuman sacrifice I had made to my
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: injured honor. This was the consideration that incessantly prompted and
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: still importunes me to run every risk of life and fortune,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: rather than leave my fame under such an ignominious aspersion.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I purpose to obey this internal call. I am apt
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: to believe it is the voice of Heaven, of that providence,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: which manifested its care by sending such a generous auxiliary
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: to my aid when I I was overpowered by Banditti
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: on the very first day of my expedition. Having in
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: this manner gratified the curiosity of his deliver, he expressed
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: a desire of knowing the quality of him to whom
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: he was so signally obliged, and Rinaldo did not scruple
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: to make the Castilian acquainted with his name and family.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: He likewise communicated the story of his unfortunate love with
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: all the symptoms of unutterable woe, which drew tears from
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: the noble hearted Spaniard, while with a groan that announced
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: the load which overwhelmed his soul. I had a daughter,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: said he, such as you describe the peerless Monimia. Had
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Heaven decreed her for the arms of such a lover, I,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: who am now the most wretched, should have been the
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: most happy parent upon earth. Thus did these new friends
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: alternately indulge their mutual sorrow and concert measures for their
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: future operations. Melville earnestly solicited the Castilian to favor him
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: with his company to England, where in all probability both
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: would enjoy the gloomy satisfaction of being revenged upon theirs
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: common betrayer fathom, And as a farther inducement, he assured
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: him that as soon as he should have accomplished the
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: melancholy purposes of his voyage, he would accompany Don Diego
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: to Spain and employ his whole interest and fortune in
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: his service. The Spaniard thunderstruck at the extravagant generosity of
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: this proposal, could scarce believe the evidence of his own senses,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: and after some pause, replied, my duty would teach me
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: to obey any command you should think proper to impose.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: But here my inclination and interest are so agreeably flattered
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: that I should be equally ungrateful and unwise in pretending
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: to comply with reluctance. This point being settled, they moved
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: forwards to Mand's as soon as Don Diego was in
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: a condition to bear the shock of such a removal,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: and their remaining until his wounds were perfectly cured. They
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: hired a post chaise for Ostend, embarked in a vessel
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: at that port, reached the opposite shore of England after
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: a short and easy passage, and arrived in London without
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: having met with any sinister accident on the road. As
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: they approached this capital, Rinaldo's grief seemed to regurgitate with
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: redoubled violence. His memory was waked to the most minute
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: and painful exertion of its faculties, his imagination teemed with
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: the most afflicting images, and his impatience became so ardent
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: that never lover panted more eagerly for the consummation of
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: his wishes than Melville for an opportunity of stretching himself
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: upon the grave of the lost Monemia. The Castilian was
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: astonished as well as effected, at the poignancy of his grief,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: which as a proof of his susceptibility and virtue endeared
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: him still more to his affection, and though his own
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: misfortunes had rendered him very unfit for the office of
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: a comforter, he endeavored by soothing discourse to moderate the
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: excess of his friend's affliction. Though it was dark when
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: they alighted at the inn, Melville ordered a coach to
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: be called, and, being attended by the Spaniard, who would
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: not be persuaded to quit him upon such an occasion,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: he repaired to the house of the generous jew, whose
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: room distilled very plentifully at his approach. The count had
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: already acquitted himself in point of pecuniary obligations to this
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: benevolent Hebrew, And now, after having made such acknowledgments as
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: might be expected from a youth of his disposition, he
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: begged to know by what channel he had received a
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: letter which he had been so kind as to forward
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: to Vienna. Joshua, who was ignorant of the contents of
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: that epistle, and saw the young gentleman extremely moved, would
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: have eluded his inquiry by pretending he had forgot the circumstance.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: But when he understood the nature of the case, which
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: was not explained without the manifestation of the utmost inquietude.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: He heartily condoled the desponding lover, telling him he had
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: in vain employed all his intelligence about that unfortunate beauty
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: in consequence of Melville's letter to him on that subject,
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: and then directed him to the house of the physician
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: who had brought the fatal billet which had made him miserable.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: No sooner did he receive this information than he took
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: his leave abruptly with promise of returning next day, and
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: hide him to the lodgings of that gentleman, whom he
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: was lucky enough to find at home, being favored with
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: a private audience. When I tell you, said he that
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: my name is Rinaldo, Count de Melville, you will know
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: me to be the most unfortunate of men. By that
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: letter which you committed to the charge of my worthy
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: friend Joshua, the fatal veil was removed from my eyes,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: which had been so long darkened by the artifices of
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: incredible deceit, and my own incurable misery fully presented to
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: my view. If you were acquainted with the unhappy fair
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: who hath fallen a victim to my mistake, you will
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: have some idea of the insufferable pangs which I now
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: feel in recollecting her fate. If you have compassion for
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: these pangs, you will not refuse to conduct me to
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: the spot where the dear remains of Monimia are deposited. There,
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Let me enjoy a full banquet of woe. There, Let
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: me feast that worm of sorrow that preys upon my
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: heart for such entertainment? Have I revisited this to me?
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Ill omendle for this satisfaction I intrude upon your condescension
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: at these unseen reasonable hours. For to such a degree
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: of impatience is my affliction wedded that no slumber shall
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: assail mine eyelids, no peace reside within my bosom until
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: I shall have adored that earthly shrine where my Monimia lies.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Yet would I know the circumstances of her fate? Did
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Heaven ordain no angel to minister to her distress? Were
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: her last moments comfortless? Ha was not? She abandoned to indigence,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: to insults, left in the power of that inhuman villain
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: who betrayed us both sacred Heaven. Why did Providence wink
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: at the triumph of such consummate perfidy. The physician, having
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: listened with complacency to this effusion, replied, it is my profession,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: it is my nature to sympathize with the afflicted. I
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: am a judge of your feelings because I know the
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: value of your loss. I attended the incomparable monemia in
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: her last illness, and am well enough acquainted with her
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: story to conclude that she fell a sacrifice to an
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: unhappy misunderstanding, affected and fomented by that traitor who abused
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: your mutual confidence. He then proceeded to inform him of
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: all the particulars which we have already recorded, touching the
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: destiny of the beauteous orphan, and concluded with telling him
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: he was ready to yield him any other satisfaction which
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: it was in his power to grant. The circumstances of
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: the tale had put Rinaldo's spirits into such commotion that
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: he could utter nothing but interjections and unconnected words. When
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Fathom's behavior was described, he trembled with fierce agitation, started
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: from his chair, pronouncing, monster, fiend, but we shall one
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: day meet. When he was made acquainted with the benevolence
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: of the French lady, he exclaimed, Oh, heaven born charity
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: and compassion. Sure that must be some spirit of grace
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: sent hither to mitigate the tortures of life. Where shall
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: I find her to offer up my thanks and adoration?
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Having heard the conclusion of the detail, he embraced the
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: relator as the kind the benefactor of Monymia, shed a
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: flood of tears in his bosom, and pressed him to
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: crown the obligation by conducting him to the solitary place
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: where now she wrested from all her cares. The gentleman,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: perceiving the transports of his grief where such as could
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: not be opposed, complied with his request, attended him in
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: the vehicle, and directed the coachman to drive to a
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: sequestered field at some distance from the city, where stood
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: the church, within whose awful aisle this scene was to
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: be acted. The sexton, being summoned from his bed, produced
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: the keys in consequence of a gratification, after the physician
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: had communed with him apart and explained the intention of
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Rinaldo's visit. During this pause, the soul of Melville was
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: wound up to the highest pitch of enthusiastic sorrow. The
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: uncommon darkness of the night, the solemn silence and lonely
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: situation of the place conspired with the occasion of his
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: coming and the dismal images of his fancy to produce
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: a real rapture of gloomy expectation which the whole world
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: would not have persuaded him to disappoint. The clock struck twelve.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: The owl screeched from the ruined battlement. The door was
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: opened by the sexton, who, by the light of a
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: glimmering taper, conducted the despairing lover to a dreary isle,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: and stamped upon the ground with his foot, saying, here
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: the young lady lies interred. Melville no sooner received this
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: intimation than falling on his knees and pressing his lips
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: to the hallowed earth. Peace, cried he to the gentle
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: tenant of this silent habitation, then, turning to the bystanders,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: with a blood shot, said, leave me to the full
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: enjoyment of this occasion. By grief is too delicate to
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: admit the company even of my friends. The rites to
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: be performed require privacy. Adieu, then here must I pass
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: the night alone. The doctor, alarmed at this declaration, which
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: he was afraid imported some resolution fatal to his own life,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: began to repent of having been accessory to the visit,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: attempted to dissuade him from his purpose, and, finding him
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: obstinately determined, called in the assistance of the Sexton and
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: co Wachman, and solicited the aid of Don Diego to
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: force Rinaldo from the execution of his design. The Castilian,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: knowing his friend was then very unfit for common altercation,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: interposed in the dispute, saying, you need not be afraid
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: that he will obey the dictates of despair. His religion,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: his honor will baffle such temptations. He hath promised to
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: reserve his life for the occasions of his friend, and
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: he shall not be disappointed in his present aim. In
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: order to corroborate this peremptory address, which was delivered in
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: the French language, he unsheathed his sword, and the others
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: retreating at sight of his weapon, count said, he enjoy
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: your grief in full transport. I will screen you from interruption,
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: though at the hazard of my life, and while you
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: give a loose to sorrow within the ghastly vault, I
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: will watch till morning in the porch and meditate upon
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: the ruin of my own family and peace. He accordingly
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: prevailed upon the physician to retire after he had satisfied
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: the sexton, and ordered the coachman to return by breakth day. Rinaldo,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: thus left alone, prostrated himself upon the grave, and poured
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: forth such lamentations as would have drawn tears from the
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: most savage hearer. He called aloud upon Monymia's name? Are
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: these the nuptial joys to which our fate hath doomed us?
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: Is this the fruit of those endearing hopes, that intercourse divine,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: that raptured admiration, in which so many hours insensibly elapsed.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Where now are those attractions to which I yielded up
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: my captive heart quenched? Are those genial eyes that gladdened
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: each beholder and shown the planets of my happiness and peace? Cold?
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Cold and withered? Are those lips that swelled with love
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: and far out blushed? The damask rose and ah for
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: ever silenced is that tongue whose eloquence had power to
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: lull the pangs of misery and care? No more shall
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: my attention be ravished with the music of that voice
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: which used to thrill in soft vibrations to my soul.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: O Saint spirit O unspotted shade of her, whom I adored,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: of her, whose memory I shall still revere with ever
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: bleeding sorrow and regret, of her, whose image will be
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: the last idea that forsakes this hapless bosom. Now art
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: thou conscious of my integrity and love? Now dost thou
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: behold the anguish that I feel. If the pure essence
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: of thy nature will permit, wilt thou, ah, wilt thou
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: indulge this wretched youth with some kind signal of thy notice,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: with some token of thy approbation. Wilt thou assume a
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: medium of embodied air in semblance of that lovely form
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: which now lies moldering in this dreary tomb, and speak
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: the words of peace to my distempered soul. Return Monymia appear,
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: though but for one short moment to my longing eyes
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: vouchsafe one smile, Rinaldo will be satisfied. Rinaldo's heart will
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: be at rest, His grief no more will overflow its banks,
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: but glide with equal current to his latest hour. Alas
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: these are the raving of my delirious sorrow, Monimia, hears
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: not my complaints. Her soul, sublime, far far above all
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: sublunary cares, enjoys that felicity of which she was debarred
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: on earth in vain. I stretched these eyes, environed with darkness,
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: undistinguishing in void. No object meets my view. No sound
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: salutes my near except the noisy wind that whistles through
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: these vaulted caves of death. In this kind of exclamation,
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: did Rinaldo pass the night not without a certain species
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: of waffle enjoyment, which the soul is often able to
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: conjure up from the depths of distress, insomuch that when
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: the morning intruded on his privacy, he could scarce believe
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: it was the light of day. So fast had fleeted
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: the minutes of his devotion. His heart being thus disburdened
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: and his impatience gratified, he became so calm and composed
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: that Don Diego was equally pleased and astonished at the
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: air of serenity with which he came forth and embraced
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: him with warm acknowledgments of his goodness and an attachment.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: He frankly owned that his mind was now more at
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: ease than he had ever found it since he first
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: received the fatal intimation of his loss, that a few
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: such feasts would entirely moderate the keen appetite of his sorrow,
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: which he would afterwards feed with less precipitation. He also
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: imparted to the Castilian the plan of a monument which
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: he had designed for the incomparable Monimia, and Don Diego
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: was so much struck with the description that he solicited
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: his advice in projecting another of a different nature to
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: be erected to the memory of his own ill fated
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: wife and daughter, should he ever be able to re
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: establish himself. In Spain, chapter sixty three, he renews the
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: rights of sorrow and is entranced. While they amused themselves
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: with this sort of conversation, the physician returned with the
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: coach and accompanied them back to their inn, where he
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: left them to their repose, after having promised to call
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: again at noon and conduct Rinaldo to the house of
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: Madame Clement, the benefactress of Monimia, to whom he eagerly
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: desired to be intered us. The appointment was observed with
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: all imaginable punctuality on both sides, Melville had arrayed himself
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: in a suit of deep mourning, and he found the
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: good lady in the like habit assumed upon the same occasion.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: The goodness of her heart was manifest in her countenance.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: The sensibility of the youth discovered itself in a flood
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: of tears, which he shed at her appearance. His sensations
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: were too full for utterance, nor was she for some
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: time able to give him welcome. While she led him
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: by the hand to a seat, the drops of sympathy
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: rushed into either eye, and at length she broke silence, saying,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: count we must acquiesce in the dispensations of providence, and
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: quiet the transports of our grief, with a full assurance
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: that Monimia is happy. This name was the key that
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: unlocked the faculty of his speech. I must strive, said
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: he to ease the anguish of my heart with that consolation.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: But say, humane, benevolent lady, to whose compassion and generality,
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: that hapless orphan was indebted for the last peaceful moment
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: she enjoyed upon earth, say, in all your acquaintance with
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: human nature, in all your intercourse with the daughters of men,
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: in all the exercise of your charity and beneficence. Did
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: you ever observe such sweetness, purity and truth, such beauty,
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: sense and perfection as that which was the inheritance of
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: her whose fate I shall forever deplore. She was, indeed,
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: replied the lady, the best and fairest of our sex.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: This was the beginning of a conversation touching that lovely victim,
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: in the course of which he explained those wicked arts
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: which Fathom practiced to alienate his affections from the adorable Monemia.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: And she described the cunning hints and false insinuations by
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: which that traitor had dispersed the unsuspecting lover and soiled
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: his character. In the opinion of the virtuous orphan, the
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: intelligence he obtained on this occasion added indignation to his grief.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: The whole mystery of Monimia's behavior, which he could not
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: before explain, house, stood disclosed before him. He saw the
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: gradual progress of that infernal plan which had been laid
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: for their mutual ruin, and his soul was inflamed with
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: such desire of vengeance that he would have taken his
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: leave abruptly in order to set on foot an immediate
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: inquiry about the perfidious author of his wrongs, that he
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: might exterminate such a monster of iniquity from the face
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: of the earth. But he was restrained by Madame Clement,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: who gave him to understand that Fathom was already overtaken
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: by the vengeance of heaven, for she had traced him
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: in all the course of his fortune, from his first
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: appearance in the medical sphere to his total eclipse. She
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: represented the villain as a wretch altogether unworthy of his attention.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: She said he was so covered with infamy that no
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: person could enter the lists against him without bearing away
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: some stain of dishonor that he was at present peculiarly
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: protected by the law and sheltered from the resentment of
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: Rinaldo in the cavern of his disgrace. Melville, glowing with rage,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: replied that he was a venomous serpent, which it was
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: incumbent on every foot to crush, that it was the
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: duty of every man to contribute his whole power in
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: freeing society from such a pernicious hypocrite, and that if
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: such instances of perfidy and ingratitude were suffered to pass
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: with impunity, virtue and plain dealing would soon be expelled
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: from the habitations of men over and above these motives,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: said he, I own myself so vitiated with the alloy
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: of human passion and infirmity, that I desire I eagerly
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: pant for an occasion of meeting him hand to hand,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: where I may upbraid him with his treachery and showered
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: down vengeance and destruction on his perfidious head. Then he
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: recounted the anecdotes of our adventure which he had learned
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: in Germany and Flanders, and concluded with declaring his unalterable
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: resolution of releasing him from jail, that he might have
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: an opportunity of sacrificing him with his own hand to
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: the manings of Monymia. The discreet lady, perceiving the perturbation
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: of his mind, would not further combat the impetuosity of
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: his passion, contenting herself with exacting a promise that he
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: would not execute his purpose until he should have deliberated
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: three days upon the consequences by which a step of
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: that kind might be attended. Before the expiration of that term,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: she thought measures might be taken to prevent the young
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: gentleman from exposing his life or reputation to unnecessary hazard.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: Having complied with her request in this particular, he took
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: his leave after he had, by repeated entreaties, prevailed upon
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: her to accept a jewel in token of his veneration
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: for the kind benefactress of the deceased Monimia. Nor could
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: his generous heart be satisfied until he had forced a
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: considerable present on the humane physician, who had attended her
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: in her last moments, and now discovered a particular sympathy
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: and concern for her desponding lover. This gentleman attended him
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: to the house of the benevolent Joshua, where they dined,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: and where Don Diego was recommended in the most fervid
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: terms of friendship to the good offices of their host.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: Not that this duty was performed in presence of the stranger.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: Rinaldo's delicacy would not expose his friend to such a situation.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: While the physician, before dinner entertained that stranger in one apartment,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: Melville withdrew into another with the jew to whom he
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: disclosed the affair of the Castilian, with certain circumstances which
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: shall in due time be revealed Joshua's curiosity. Being wedded
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: by this information, he could not help buying the Spaniard
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: at table with such a particular stare that Don Diego
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: perceived his attention and took umbrage at the freedom of
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: his regard. Being unable to conceal his displeasure, he addressed
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: himself to the Hebrew with great solemnity in the Spanish
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: tongue saving signor is there any singularity in my appearance?
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: Or do you recollect the features of Don Diego? De
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: zealous senor Don Diego replied the other in pure Castilian,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: I crave your pardon for the rudeness of my curiosity,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: which prompted me to survey a nobleman whose character I
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: revere and to whose misfortunes I am no strng. Indeed,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: were curiosity alone concerned, I should be without excuse. But
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: as I am heartily inclined to serve you as far
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: as my weak abilities extend, I hope your generosity will
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: not impute any little involuntary trespass of punctilio to my
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: want of cordiality or esteem. The Spaniard was not only
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: appeased by this apology, but also affected with the compliment
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: and the language in which it was conveyed. He thanked
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: the jew for his kind declaration, entreated him to bear
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: with the peevishness of a disposition, sore with the galling
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: hand of affliction, and turning up his eyes to Heaven,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: were it possible, cried he for fate to reconcile contradictions
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: and recall the irremediable current of events. I would now
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: believe that there was happiness still in reserve for the forlorn, zealous,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: now that I tread the land of freedom and humanity,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: Now that I find myself befriended by the most generous
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: of men, Alas I ask not happiness, If, by the
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: kind endeavor of the gallant Count de Melville, to whom
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: I am already indebted for my life, and by the
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: efforts of his friends, the honor of my name shall
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: be purified and cleared from the poisonous stains of malice
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: by which it is at present spotted. I shall then
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: enjoy all that satisfaction which destiny can bestow upon a
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: wretch whose woes are incurable. Rinaldo comforted him with the
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: assurance of his being on the eve of triumphing over
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: his adversaries, and Joshua confirmed the consolation by giving him
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: to understand that he had correspondents in Spain of some
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: influence in the state, that he had already written to
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: them on the subject of Don Diego in consequence of
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: a letter which he had received from Melville while he
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: tarried at Mand's, and that he every post expected a
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: favorable answer on that subject. After dinner, the physician took
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: his leave, though not before he had promised to meet
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: Rinaldo at night and accompany him in the repetition of
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: his midnight visit to Monimia's tomb. For this pilgrimage, the
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: unfortunate youth resolved nightly to perform during the whole time
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: of his residence in England. It was indeed a sort
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: of pleasure, the prospect of which enabled him to bear
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: the toil of living through the day, though his patience
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: was almost quite exhausted before the hour of assignation arrived.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: When the doctor appeared with the coach, he leaped into
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: it with great eagerness. After he had with much difficulty
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: prevailed with Don Diego to stay at home on account
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: of his health, which was not yet perfectly established. The Castilian, however,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: would not comply with his request until he had obtained
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: the count's promise that he should be permitted to accompany
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: him next night and take that duty alternately with the physician.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: About midnight they reached the place where they found the
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: sexton in waiting. According to the orders he had received,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: the door was opened, the mourner conducted to the tomb
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: and left, as before, to the gloom of his own meditations.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: Again he laid himself on the cold ground. Again, he
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: renewed his lamentable strain. His imagination began to be heated
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: into an ecstasy of enthusiasm, during which he again fervently
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: invoked the spirit of his deceased monemia. In the midst
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: of these invocations, his ear was suddenly invaded with the
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: sound of some few solemn notes issuing from the organ,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: which seemed to feel the impulse of an invisible hand.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: At this awful salutation, Melville was roused to the keenest
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: sense of surprise and attention. Reason shrunk before the thronging
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: ideas of his fancy, which represented this music as the
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: prelude to something strange and supernatural, And while he waited
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: for the sequel, The place was suddenly illuminated, and each
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: surrounding object brought under the cognizance of his eye. What
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: passed within his mind on this occasion is not easy
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: to be described. All his faculties were swallowed up by
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: those of seeing and hearing. He had mechanically raised himself
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: upon one knee, with his body advancing forwards, and in
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: this attitude he gazed with a look through which his
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: soul seemed eager to escape to his view. Thus strained
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: upon vacant space, in a few minutes appeared the figure
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: of a woman arrayed in white, with a veil that
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: covered her face and flowed down upon her back and shoulders.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: The phantom approached him with an easy step, and lifting
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: up her veil, discovered, believe it, o reader, the individual
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: countenance of monemia. At sight of these well known features
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: seemingly improved with new celestial graces. The youth became a
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: statue expressing amazement, love, and awful adoration. He saw the
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: apparition smile with meek benevolence, divine, compassion, warm and intended
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: by that fond, pure flame which death could not extinguish.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: He heard the voice of his monemia called rinaldo thrice.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: He essayed to answer as oft his tongue denied its office,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: his hair stood upright, and a cold vapor seemed to
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: thrill through every nerve. This was not fear, but the
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: infirmity of human nature, oppressed by the presence of a
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: superior being. At length, his agony was overcome. He recollected
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: all his resolution, and, in a strain of awestruck rapture,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: thus addressed the heavenly visitant. Hast Thou then heard pure
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: spirit the wailings of my grief. Hast Thou descended from
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: the realms of bliss in pity to my woe, And
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: art thou come to speak the words of peace to
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: my desponding soul, to bid the wretched smile, to lift
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: the load of misery and care from the afflicted breast,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: to fill thy lover's heart with joy and pleasing hope.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: Was still the darling task of my monymia, ere yet
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: refined to that perfection which mortality can never attain. No
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: wonder then blessed Shade, that now, when reunited to thy
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: native heaven, thou art still kind, propitious, and beneficent to
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: us who groan in this inhospitable vale of sorrow thou
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: hast left. Tell me, Ah, tell me, dost thou still
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: remember those fond hours we pass together. Doth that enlightened
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: bosom feel a pang of soft regret when thou recallest
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: our fatal separation. Sure that meeking glance bespeaks thy sympathy. Ah,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: how that tender look o'erpowers me sacred Heaven. The pearly
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: drops of pity trickle down thy cheeks. Such are the
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: tears that angels shed o'er man's distress. Turn not away,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: thou beckonest me to follow. Yes, I will follow thee
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: ethereal spirit. As far as these weak limbs, encumbered with mortality,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: will bear my weight and would to Heaven, I could
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: with ease put off these vile, corporeal shackles and attend
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: thy flight. So saying, he started from the ground, and
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: in a transport of eager expectation, at awful distance, traced
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: the footsteps of the apparition, which, entering a detached apartment,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: sunk down upon a chair, and with a sigh, exclaimed, indeed,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: this is too much. What was the disorder of Rinaldo's
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: mind when he perceived this phenomenon, before reflection could perform
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: worm its office. Moved by a sudden impulse, he sprung forwards, crying,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: if it be death to touch thee let me die,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: And caught in his arms not the shadow, but the
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: warm substance of the all accomplished monemia, mysterious powers of providence.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: This is no phantom, This is no shade. This is
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: the life, the panting bosom of her, whom I have
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: so long, so bitterly deplored. I fold her in my arms.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: I press her glowing breast to mine. I see her
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: blush with virtuous pleasure and ingenuous love. She smiles upon
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: me with enchanting tenderness. Oh, let me gaze on that
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: transcendent beauty, which the more I view it ravishes. The
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: more these charms are too intense. I sicken while I
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: gaze merciful Heaven. Is not this a mere illusion of
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: the brain? Was she not fled forever? Had not the
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: cold hand of death divorced her from my hope? This
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: must be some flattering vision of my distempered fancy, perhaps
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: some soothing dream. If such it be, grant o ye,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: heavenly powers, that I may never wake O gentle youth,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: replied the beauteous orphan, still classed in his embrace. What
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: joy now fills the bosom of Monymia at this triumph
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: of thy virtue and thy love? When I see these
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: transports of thy affection, When I find thee restored to
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: that place in my esteem and admiration which thou hadst
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: lost by the arts of calumny and malice, This is
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: a meeting which my most sanguine hopes durst not presage.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: So entirely were the faculties of Rinaldo, engrossed in the
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: contemplation of his restored monemia, that he saw not the
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: rest of the company, who wept with transport over this
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: affecting scene. He was therefore amazed at the interposition of
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: Madame Clement, who, while the shower of sympathetic pleasure bedewed
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: her cheeks, congratulated the lovers upon this happy event, crying,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: these are the joys which virtue calls her own. They
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: also received the compliments of a reverend clergyman, who told
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: Monimia she had reaped at last the fruits of that
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: pious resignation to the will of Heaven which she had
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: so devoutly practiced during the term of her affliction. And
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: lastly they were accosted by the physician, who was not
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: quite so hackneyed in the ways of death, or so
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: callous to the finer sensations of the soul, but that
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: he blubbered plentifully while he petitioned heaven in behalf of
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: such an accomplished and deserving pair Monimia, taking Madame Clement
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: by the hand. Whatever joy, said she Rinaldo derives from
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: this occasion is owing to the bounty the compassion and
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: maternal care of this incomparable lady, together with the kind
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: admonitions and humanity of those two worthy gentlemen. Melville, whose
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: passions were still in agitation, and whose mind could not
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: yet digest the incidents that occurred, embraced them all by turns.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: But like the faithful needle, which though shaken for an
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: instant from its poise, immediately regains its true direction and
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: points invariably to the poll, he soon returned to his
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: Monymia again. He held her in his arms. Again, he
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: drank enchantment from her eyes, and thus poured forth the
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: effusions of his soul. Can I then trust the evidence
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: of sense and art thou really to my wish restored? Never, oh,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: never did thy beauty shine with such bewitching grace as
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: that which now confounds and captivates my view. Sure there
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: is something more than mortal in thy looks. Where hast
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: thou lived, where borrowed this perfection? Whence art thou now descended? Oh,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: I am all amazement, joy, and fear thou wilt not
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: leave me? No, we must not part again. By this
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: warm kiss, a thousand times more sweet than all the
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: fragrance of the east, we never more will part. Oh,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: this is rapture, ecstasy, and what no language can explain.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: In the midst of these ejaculations, he ravished a banquet
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: from her glowing lips that kindled in his heart aflame,
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: which rushed through every vein and glided to his marrow.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: This was a privilege he had never claimed before, and
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: now permitted as a recompense for all the penance he
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: had suffered. Nevertheless, the cheeks of Monimia, who was altogether
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: unaccustomed to such familiarities, underwent a total suffusion, and Madame
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: Clement discreetly relieved her from the anxiety of her situation
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: by interfering in the discourse and rallying the count upon
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: his endeavors to monopolize such a branch of happiness. Oh,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: my dear lady, replied Rinaldo, who by this time had
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: in some measure recovered his recollection. Forgive the wild transports
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: of a fond lover, who hath so unexpectedly retrieved the
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: jewel of his soul. Yet, far from wishing to hoard
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: up his treasure, he means to communicate and diffuse his
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: happiness to all his friends. Oh, my Monymia, how will
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: the pleasure of this hour be propagated? As yet thou
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: knowest not all the bliss that is reserved for thy enjoyment. Meanwhile,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: I longed to learn by what contrivance this happy interview
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: hath been effected. Still am I ignorant? How I was
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: transported into this apartment from the lonely vault in which
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: I mourned over my supposed misfortune. Chapter sixty four, The
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: mystery unfolded another recognition, which I ta is to be
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: hoped the reader could not foresee. The French lady then
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: explained the whole mystery of Monimia's death as a stratagem
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: she had concerted with the clergyman and doctor in order
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: to defeat the pernicious designs of Fathom, who seemed determined
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: to support his false pretensions by dint of perjury and fraud,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: which they would have found it very difficult to elude.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: She observed that the physician had actually despaired of Monimia's life,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: and it was not till after she herself was made
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: acquainted with the prognostic that she wrote the letter to Rinaldo,
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: which she committed to the care of Madame Clement, with
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: an earnest entreaty that it should not be sent till
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: after her decease. But that lady, believing the Count had
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: been certainly abused by his treacherous confidant, despatched the billet
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: without the knowledge of Monimia, whose health was restored by
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: the indefatigable care of the physician and the sage exhortations
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: of the clergyman by which she was reconciled to life.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: In a word, the villany of Fathom had inspired her
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: with some faint hope that Rinaldo might still be innocent,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: and that notion contributed not a little to her cure.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: The letter having so effectually answered their warmest hopes in
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: bringing back Rinaldo such a pattern of constancy and love.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: The Confederates, in consequence of his enthusiastic sorrow, had planned
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: this meeting as the most interesting way of restoring two
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: virtuous lovers to the arms of each other. For which
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: purpose the good clergyman had pitched upon his own church
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: and indulged them with the use of the vestry in
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: which they now were presented with a small but elegant collation.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: Melville heard this succinct detail with equal joy and admiration.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: He poured forth the dictates of his gratitude to the
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: preservers of his happiness this church, said he shall henceforth
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: possess a double share of my veneration. This holy man will,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: I hope, finished the charitable work he has begun by
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: tying those bands of our happiness, which nott but death
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: shall have power to unbind. Then, turning to that object
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: which was the star of his regard, do I not
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: overrate said he my interest with the fair monymia. She
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: made no verbal reply, but answered by an emphatic glance
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: more eloquent than all the power of rhetoric and speech.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: This language which is universal in the world of love,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: he perfectly well understood, and in token of that faculty,
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: sealed the assent, which she had smiled with a kiss
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: imprinted on her polished forehead. In order to dissipate these
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: interesting ideas, which, by being too long indulged, might have
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: endangered his reason, Madame Clement entreated him to entertain the
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: company with a detail of what had happened to him
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: in his last journey to the Empire, and Monimia expressed
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: a desire of knowing, in particular the issue of his
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: contest with Count Trebassi, who she knew had usurped the
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: succession of his father. Thus solicited, he could not refuse
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: to gratify their curiosity and concern. He explained his obligations
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: to the benevolent Jew, related the steps he had taken
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: at Vienna for the recovery of his inheritance, informed them
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: of his happy renconter with his father in law, of
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: his sister's deliverance and marriage, of the danger into which
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: his life had been precipitated by the news of Monimia's death,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: and lastly of his adventure with the Banditti in favor
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: of a gentleman, who he afterwards understood, had been robbed
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: in the most base and barbarous manner by fathom. He likewise,
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: to the astonishment of all present, and of his mistress
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: in particular, communicated some circumstances which shall appear in due season.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: Monimia's tender frame, being quite fatigued with the scene she
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: had acted, and her mind overwhelmed with the prosperous tidings
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: she had heard. After having joined the congratulations of the
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: company on the good fortune of her, Rinaldo begged leave
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: to retire, that she might by repose recruit her exhausted spirits,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: and the night being pretty far spent, she was conducted
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: by her lover to Madame Clement's coach that stood in waiting,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: in which also the rest of the company made shift
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: to embark, and were carried to the house of that
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: good lady, where after they were invited to dine, and
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: Melville entreated to bring Don Diego and the Jew along
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: with them. They took leave of one another and retired
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: to their respective lodgings in a transport of joy and satisfaction.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: As for Rinaldo, his rapture was still mixed with apprehension
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: that all he had seen and heard was no more
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: than an unsubstantial vision raised by some gay delirium of
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: a disordered imagination. While his breast underwent those violent, though
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: blissful emotions of joy and admiration, his friend, the Castilian,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: spent the night in ruminating over his own calamities, and
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: in a serious and severe review of his own conduct.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: He compared his own behavior with that of the young Hungarian,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: and found himself so light in the scale that he
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: smote his breast with violence, exclaiming, in an agony of remorse,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: Count Melville has reason to grieve, Don Diego to despair.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: His misfortunes flow from the villainy of mankind. Mine are
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: the fruit of my own madness. He laments the loss
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: of a mistress who fell a sacrifice to the perfidious
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: arts of a crafty trader. She was beautiful, virtuous, accomplished,
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: and affectionate. He was fraught with sensibility and love. Doubtless
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: his heart must have deeply suffered. His behavior denotes the
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: keenness of his woe. His eyes are ever flowing fountains
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: of tears. His bosom the habitation of size five hundred
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: leagues hath he measured in a pilgrimage to her tomb.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: Nightly he visits the dreary vault where she now lies
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: at rest. Her solitary grave is his couch. He converses
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: with darkness and the dead, until each lonely isle re
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: echoes his distress. What would be his penance had he
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: my cause? Were he conscious of having murdered a beloved
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: wife and darling daughter, ah wretch, a cruel homicide? What
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: had those dear victims done to merit such a fate?
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: Were they not ever gentle and obedient, ever aiming to
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: give the satisfaction and delight? Say that Seraphina was enamored
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: of a peasant, Say that she had degenerated from the
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: honor of her race. The inclinations are involuntary. Perhaps that
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: stranger was her equal in pedigree and worth. Had they
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: been fairly questioned, they might have justified, at least excused
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: that conduct which appeared so criminal. Or had they owned
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: the offense and supplicated pardon, O barbarous monster? That I
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: am was all the husband, was all the father extinguished
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: in my heart? How shall my own errors be forgiven?
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: If I refuse to pardon the frailties of my own blood,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: of those who are most dear to my affection. Yet
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: nature pleaded strongly in their behalf. My heart was bursting
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: while I dismissed them to the shades of death. I
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: was maddened with revenge. I was guided by that savage
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: principle which falsely we call honor, a cursed phantom that
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: assumes the specious title and misleads our wretched nation. Is
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: it then honorable to skulk like an assassin and plunge
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: the secret dagger in the heart of some unhappy man
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: who hath incurred my groundless jealousy or suspicion without indulging
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: him with that opportunity which the worst criminal enjoys. Or
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: is it honorable to poison two defenseless women, a tender wife,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: an amiable daughter, whom even a frown would almost have destroyed. Oh,
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: this is cowardice, brutality, hell born fury and revenge. Heaven
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: hath not mercy to forgive such execrable guilt. Who gave
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: thee power abandoned ruffian over the lives of those whom
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: God hath stationed as thy fellows of probation, over those
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: whom he had sent to comfort and assist thee, to
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: sweeten all thy cares and smooth the rough, uneven paths
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: of life. Oh, I am doomed to never ceasing horror
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: and remorse. If misery can atone for such enormous guilt,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: I have felt it in the extreme, Like an undying vulture.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: It preys upon my heart to sorrow. I am wedded.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: I hug that teeming consort to my soul. Never ah,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: never shall we part. For soon as my fame shall shine,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: unclouded by the charge of treason that now hangs over it,
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: I will devote myself to penitence and woe. A cold,
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: damp pavement shall be my bed. My raiment shall be sackcloth.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: The field shall furnish herbage for my food. The stream
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: shall quench my thirst. The minutes shall be numbered by
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: my groans. The night be privy to my strains of sorrow.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: Till Heaven, in pity to my sufferings, release me from
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: the penance I endure. Perhaps the saints whom I have
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: murdered will intercede for my remission. Such was the exercise
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: of grief in which the hapless Castilian consumed the night.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: He had not yet consigned himself to rest when Rinaldo,
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: entering his chamber, displayed such a gleam of wildness and
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: rapture on his countenance as overwhelmed him with amazement. For
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: till that moment he had never seen his visage unobscured
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: with woe. Pardon this abrupt intrusion, my friend, cried Melville,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: I could no longer withhold from your participation. The great,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: the unexpected turn which hath this night dispelled all my
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: sorrows and restored me to the fruition of ineffable joy.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: Monimia lives there, fair, the tender, the virtuous. Monimia lives
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: and smiles upon my vows. This night I retrieved her
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: from the grave. I held her in these arms, I
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: pressed her warm, delicious lips to mine. Oh, I am
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: giddy with intolerable pleasure. Don Diego was confounded at this declaration,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: which he considered as the effects of a disordered brain.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: He never doubted that Rinaldo's grief had at length overpowered
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: his reason, and that his words were the effects of
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: mere frenzy. While he mused on this melancholy subject, the
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: count composed his features and in a succinct and well
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: connected detail, explained the whole mystery of his happiness, to
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: the inexpressible astonishment of the Spaniard, who shed tears of satisfaction,
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: and straining the Hungarian to his breast. O, my son said,
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: he you see what recompense Heaven hath in store for
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: those who pursue the paths of real virtue, those paths
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: from which I myself have been fatally misled by a
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: faithless vapor, which hath seduced my steps and left me
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: darkling in the abyss of wretchedness such as you described.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: This happy fare was once my Seraphina, rich in every
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: grace of mind and body which nature could bestow, had
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: it pleased Heaven to bless her with a lover like Rinaldo.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: But no more. The irrevocable shaft is fled. I will
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: not taint your enjoyment with my unavailing size. Melville assured
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: this disconsolate father that no pleasure, no avocation, should ever
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: so entirely engross his mind, but that he should still
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: find an hour for sympathy and friendship. He communicated the
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: invitation of Madame Clement, and insisted upon his compliance that
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: he might have an opportunity of seeing and approving the
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: object of his passion. I can refuse nothing to the
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: request of Count de Melville, replied the Spaniard, And it
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: were ungrateful in me to decline the honor you propose.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: I own myself inflamed with the desire of beholding a
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: young lady whose perfections I have seen reflected in your sorrow.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: My curiosity is moreover interested on account of that humane gentlewoman,
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: whose uncommon generosity sheltered such virtue and distress. But my
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: disposition is infectious, and will I am afraid hang like
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: a damp upon the general festivity of your friends. Melville
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: would take no denial, and, having obtained his consent, repaired
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: to the house of Joshua, whose countenance seemed to unbent
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: gradually into a total expression of joy and surprise as
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: he learned the circumstances of this amazing event. He faithfully
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: promised to attend the Count at the appointed hour, and
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: in the meantime earnestly exhorted him to take some repose
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: in order to quiet the agitation of his spirits, which
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: must have been violently hurried on this occasion. The advice
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: was salutary, and Ronaldo resolved to follow it. He returned
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: to his lodgings and laid himself down, but notwithstanding the
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: fatigue he had undergone, sleep, refused to visit his eyelids,
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: all his faculties being kept in motion by the ideas
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: that crowded so fast upon his imagination. Nevertheless, though his
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: mind continued in agitation, his body was refreshed, and he
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: arose in a forenoon with more serenity and vigor than
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: he had enjoyed for many months. Every moment his heart
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: throbbed with new rapture. When he found himself on the
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: brink of possessing all that his soul held dear and amiable,
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: he put on his gayest looks and apparel, insisted upon
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: the Castilians doing the same honour to the occasion, and
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: the alteration of dress produced such an advantageous change in
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: the appearance of Don Diego that when Joshua arrived at
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: the appointed hour, he could scarce recognize his features and
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: complimented him very politely on the improvement of his looks.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: True it is the Spaniard was a personage of a
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: very prepossessing, mean and noble deportment, and had not grief.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: By increasing his native gravity in some measure discomposed the
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: symmetry of his countenance, he would have passed for a
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: man of a very amiable and engaging physiognomy. They set
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: out in the Jews coach for the house of Madame Clement,
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: and were ushered into an apartment, where they found the
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: clergyman and physician with that lady to whom Don Diego
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: and the Hebrew were by Melville introduced. Before they had
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: seated themselves, Rinaldo inquired about the health of Monymia, and
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: was directed to the next room by Madame Clement, who
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: permitted him to go thither and conduct her to the company.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: He was not slow of availing himself of this permission.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: He disappeared in an instant, and during his short absence
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: Don Diego was strangely disturbed. The blood flot brushed and
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: forsook his cheeks by turns, A cold vapor seemed to
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: shiver through his nerves, and at his breast he felt
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: uncommon palpitation. Madame Clement observed his discomposure and kindly inquired
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: into the cause. When he replied, I have such an
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: interest in what concerns the count de Melville, And my
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: imagination is so much prepossessed with the perfections of Monymia
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: that I am, as it were, agonized with expectation. Yet
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: never did my curiosity before raise such tumults as those
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: that now agitate my bosom. He had scarce pronounced these
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: words when the door reopening, Rinaldo led in this mirror
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: of elegance and beauty, at sight of whom the Israelite's
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: countenance was distorted into a stare of admiration. But if
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: such was the astonishment of Joshua, what were the emotions
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: of the Castilian when in the beauteous orphan he beheld
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: the individual features of his long lost Seraphina. His feelings
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: are not to be described. The fond parent, whose affection
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: shoots even to a sense of pain, feels not half
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: such transport. When he unexpectedly retrieves a darling child from
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: the engulfing billows or devouring flame. The hope of Zealous
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: had been totally extinguished, his heart had been incessantly torn
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: with anguish and remorse, upbraiding him as the murderer of Seraphina.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: His therefore, were the additional transports of a father disburdened
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: of the guilt of such enormous homicide. His nerves were
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: too much overpowered by this sudden recognition to manifest the
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: sensation of his soul by external signs. He started not,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: nor did he lift a hand in token of surprise.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: He moved not from the spot on which he stood, but,
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: riveting his eyes to those of the lovely phantom, remained
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: without motion until she, approaching with her lover, fell at
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: his feet, and, clasping his knees, exclaimed, may I yet
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: call you father? This powerful shock aroused his faculties, A
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: cold sweat bedewed his forehead, his knees began to totter.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: He dropped upon the floor, and, throwing his arms around her, cried,
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: Oh Nature, Oh Saraphina, merciful Providence, Thy ways are past
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: finding out, so saying, he fell upon her neck and
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: wept aloud. The tears of sympathetic joy trickled down her
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: snowy bosom that heaved with rapture. Inexpressible Rinaldo's eyes poured
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: forth the briny stream. The cheeks of Madame Clement were
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: not dry. In this conjuncture. She kneeled by Saraphina kissed
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: her with all the eagerness of maternal affection, and with
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: uplifted hands adored the power that preordained this blessed event.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: The clergyman and doctor intimately shared the general transport. And
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: as for Joshua, the drops of true benevolence flowed from
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: his eyes like the oil on aaron's beard, while he
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: skipped about the room in an awkward ecstasy, and in
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: a voice resembling the hoarse notes of the long eared tribe, cried, Oh,
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: Father Abraham, such a moving scene hath not been acted
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: since Joseph disclosed himself unto his brethren in the ease.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: Ey Don Diego, having found utterance to his passion, proceeded
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: in this strain, O, my dear child, to find thee
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: Thus again, after our last unhappy parting, is wonderful, miraculous,
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: blessed be the all good my conscience. I am not
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: then the dire assassin who sacrificed his wife and daughter
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: to an infernal motive falsely titled honor, though I am
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: more and more involved in a mystery which I long
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: to hear. Explained that shall be my task, cried Rinaldo.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: But first permit me to implore your sanction to my
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: passion for the incomparable Seraphina. You already know our mutual sentiments,
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: and though I own, the possession of such inestimable worth
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: and beauty would be a recompense that infinitely transcends the
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: merit I complead. Yet, as it hath been my good
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: fortune to inspire her with a mutual flame, I hope
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: to reap from your indulgence here what I could not
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: expect from my own desert. And we present ourselves in
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: hope of your paternal assent and be addiction. Were she
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: more fair and good and gentle than she is, answered
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: the Castilian, and to my partial observation, not er appeared
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: on earth more beauteous and engaging, I would approve your
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: title to her heart and recommend you to her smiles
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: with all a father's influence and power. Yes, my daughter,
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: my joy on this occasion is infinitely augmented by the
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: knowledge of those tender ties of love that bind THEE
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: to this amiable youth, a youth to whose uncommon courage
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: and generosity I owe my life and my subsistence, together
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: with the inexpressible delight that now revels in my bosom.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: In joy, my children, the happy fruits of your reciprocal attachment.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: May Heaven, which hath graciously conducted you through a labyrinth
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: of perplexity and woe to this transporting view of blissful days,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: indulge you with that uninterrupted stream of pure felicity, which
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: is the hope and ought to be the boon of
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: virtue such as yours. So saying, he joined their hands
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: and embraced them with the most cordial love and satisfaction,
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: which diffused itself to every individual of the company, who
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: fervently invoked the almighty power in behalf of this enraptured pair.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: The tumult of these emotions having a little subsided, and
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: the Castilian being seated betwixt Rinaldo and his beauteous bride,
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: he politely bespoke the indulgence of Madame Clement, begging she
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: would permit him to demand the performance of the Count's
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: promise that he might be forthwith made acquainted with those
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: circumstances of his own fate which he was so impatient
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: to learn. The lady having assured him that she and
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: all the company would take pleasure in hearing the recapitulation.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: The Spaniard, addressing himself to Melville, in the name of Heaven,
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: said he, how could you supplant that rival who fell
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: a sacrifice to my resentment? After he had bewitched the
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: heart of Seraphina. For sure the affection he had kindled
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: in her breast must have long survived his death. That rival, replied,
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: the count who incurred your displeasure was no other than Rinaldo.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: With these words, he applied to one eye a patch
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: of black silk provided for the purpose, and turning his
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: face towards don Diego, that gentlemen started with astonishment, crying,
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: good Heaven, the very countenance of Orlando, whom I slew
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: this is still more amazing. Chapter sixty five a retrospective
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: link necessary for the concatenation of these memoirs. Indulge me
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: with a patient hearing preceded the Hungarian, and all these
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: riddles soon will be explained. Inflamed with the desire of
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: seeing foreign countries, I disobeyed the will of an indulgent father,
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: from whose house, withdrawing privately, I set out for Italy
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: in disguise. By the way of Tyrol, visited Venice, Rome, Florence,
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: and embarking at Naples in an English ship, arrived at
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: Saint Lucar, from whence I repaired to Seville. There in
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: a few days was my curiosity engaged by the fame
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: of the fair Seraphina, who was justly deemed the most
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: accomplished beauty in that part of Spain. Nay blush, not
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: gentle creature, for by my hopes of heaven, thy charms
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: were even injured by the cold applause of that report. Nevertheless,
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: I was warmly interested by the uncommon character, and eagerly
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: longed to see this pattern of perfection. As Don Diego
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: did not train her up in that restraint to which
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: the Spanish ladies are subjected. I soon found an opportunity
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: of seeing her at church, and no person here present.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: Will I presume doubt but that I was instantly captivated
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: by her beauty and deportment. Had I thought that Don
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: Diego's favor was unengaged, perhaps I should have followed the
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: dictates of vanity and inexperience and presented myself in my
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: own character among the crowd of her professed admirers. I
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: knew her father had been an officer of distinguished rank
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: and reputation, and did not doubt that he would have
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: regarded a young soldier of unexceptionable pedigree, and I will
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: even add of untainted fame. Nor did I suppose my
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: own father could have objected against such an advantageous match.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: But by dint of industrious inquiry, I learned that the
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: divine Seraphina was already betrothed to Don Manuel de Mendoza,
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: and this information overwhelmed me with despair. After having revolved
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: a thousand projects for retarding and preventing that detested union,
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: I resolved to avail myself of my talent for drawing,
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: and professed myself a master of that science, in hope
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: of being employed by the father of Seraphina, who I
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: knew let slip no opportunity of improving his daughter's education. Accordingly,
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: I had the good fortune to attract his notice, was
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: invited to his house, honored with his approbation, and furnished
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: with unrestricted opportunities of conversing with the dear object of
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: my love. The passion which her beauty had kindled was
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: by the perfections of her mind inflamed to such a
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: degree of transport as could not be concealed from her penetration,
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: she chanced to relish my conversation. I gradually acquired her friendship.
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: Pity was the next passion that she entertained in my favor.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: I then ventured to disclose myself, and the dear charmer
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: did not disapprove of my presumption. She and her mother
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: had been perplexed with some religious scruples concerning which they
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: appealed to my opinion, and I was happy enough to
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: set their minds at ease. This sort of intercourse naturally
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: created a mutual confidence among us, and in a word,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: I was blessed with the daughter's love and mother's approbation.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: Don Diego will pardon these clandestine measures, which we took
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: from a full persuasion that it was impossible to render
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: him propitious to the views in which our hearts and
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: hands were so deeply interested. I did not then know
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: how little he was addicted to superstition. Without entering into
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: a detail of the schemes we projected to delay the
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: happiness of Mendoza, I shall only observe that, knowing the
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: fatal day was at length unalterably fixed, we determined to
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: elude the purpose of Don Diego by flight, and everything
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: was actually prepared for our escape. When the hour of
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: appointment arrived, I repaired to the place at which I
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: had proposed to enter the house and stumbled in the
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: dark over the body of a man, still warm and bleeding.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: Alarmed at this occurrence, I darted myself through the window, and,
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: rushing to the apartment of the ladies immortal powers, beheld
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: the peerless Seraphina and her virtuous mother, stretched on a
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: couch and in all appearance deprived of life. The company
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: will easily conceive what agonies I felt at such a spectacle,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: I ran towards the spot in a transport of horror.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: I clasped my lovely mistress in my arms, and, finding
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: her still breathing, endeavored, but in vain to wake her
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: from the trans Antonia was overwhelmed with the same lethargic power.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: My fancy was immediately struck with the apprehension of their
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: being poisoned. Regardless of my own situation, I alarmed. The
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: family called for assistance and requested the servants to summon
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: Don Diego to the dismal scene. I was informed that
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: their master had rode forth in mena manifest confusion, and
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: while I pondered on this surprising excursion, an apothecary in
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood entered the chamber, and, having examined the pulses
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: of the ladies, declared that their lives were in no danger,
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: and advised that they should be undressed and conveyed to bed.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: While their women were busied in this employment, I went
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: into the courtyard, attended by some of the servants with lights,
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: in order to view the body of the man which
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: I had found at my arrival. His apparel was mean,
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: his countenance ferocious. A long spado was buckled to his thigh,
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: and in his belt were stuck a brace of loaded pistols,
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: so that we concluded he was some thief who had
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: waited for an opportunity, and, seeing the casement open, intended
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: to rob the house, but was prevented and slain by
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: Don Diego himself, whose retreat, however, did not a little
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: confound our conjecture. For my own part, I remained all
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: night in the house, tortured with fear, vexation, and suspense.
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: My hope was altogether disappointed by this unhappy accident, and
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: I shuddered at the prospect of losing Seraphina forever, either
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: by this mysterious malady or by her marriage with Mendoza,
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: which I now despaired of being able to defeat. The Majordomo,
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: having waited several hours for his lord's return without seeing
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: him appear, thought proper to despatch a messenger to Don
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: Manuel with an account of what had happened, and that nobleman,
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: arriving in the morning, took possession of the house. About
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: four o'clock in the afternoon, Saraphina began to stir, and
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: at five she and her mother were perfectly awake. They
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: no sooner recovered the use of reflection than they gave
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: signs of equal sorrow and amazement, and earnestly called for Isabella,
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: who was privy to our design, and who, after a
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: very minute inquiry, was found in a lone and solitary
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: chamber where she had been confined. Such was the confusion
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: of the house that no person ever dreamed of asking
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: how I entered each domestic, in all probability supposing I
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: had been introduced by his fellow, so that I tarried
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: unquestioned on pretense of concern for the distress of a
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: family in which I had been so generously entertained, and
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: by Isabella sent my respects and duty to her ladies.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: She was therefore not a little surprised when, after every
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: other servant had withdrawn, she heard the lovely Seraphina exclaim,
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: with all the violence of grief, all Isabella Orlando is
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: no more. But their astonishment was still greater when she
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: assured them of my being alive and in the house.
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: They recounted to her the adventure of last night, which
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: she explained by informing them of the letters which Don
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: Diego had intercepted, and they immediately concluded that he had,
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: in the precipitation of his wrath, killed by mistake the
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: person who was found dead in the court yard. This
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: conjecture alarmed them on my account. They, by the medium
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: of Isabella, conjured me to leave the house lest Don
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: Diego should return and accomplish his resent, And I was
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: persuaded to withdraw after I had settled the channel of
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: a correspondence with the confidant. Being now obliged to alter
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: our measures because our former intention was discovered by Don Diego,
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: I secured a retreat for Seraphina and her mother at
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: the house of the English consul in Seville, who was
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: my particular friend. And next day, understanding from Isabella that
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: her lord had not yet reappeared, and that Don Manuel
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: was very urgent in his addresses, we concerted an assignation
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: in the garden, and that same evening I was fortunate
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: enough to convey my prize to the asylum I had
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: prepared for their reception. Inexpressible was the rage of Mendoza
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: when he heard of their elopement. He raved, like one
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: deprived of reason, swore he would put all the servants
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: of the family to the rack, and, in consequence of
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: the intelligence he obtained by threats and promises, set on
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: foot a very strict inquiry in order to apprehend the
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: fugitives in Orlando, who had, by some means or other,
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: incurred his suspicion. We eluded his search by the vigilance
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: and caution of our kind host, and while we remained
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: in concealment, were extremely astonished to hear that the unfortunate
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: Don Diego was proclaimed a traitor and a price set
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: upon his head. This information overwhelmed us all with the
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: utmost affliction. Antonia lamented without ceasing the disgrace of her
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: beloved lord, from whom she never would have withdrawn herself,
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: but with the lively hope of a reconciliation. After the
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: first transports of his ire should have subsided and the
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: real character of Orlando should have appeared. It was not
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: long before we had reason to believe that Mendozo was
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: the accuser of Don Diego. Nay, start not signor Manuel
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: was actually that traitor. This was the turn of his revenge.
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: When he found himself disappointed in the hope of possessing
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: the incomparable Seraphina, he took a base advantage of your
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: absence and retreat. He posted to Madrid, impeached you to
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: the Secretary of State of having maintained a criminal correspondence
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: with the enemies of Spain, included me in it accusation as
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: a spy for the House of Austria, and framed such
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: a plausible tale from the circumstances of your distress, that
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: Don Diego was outlawed and Mendoza gratified with a grant
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: of his estate. These melancholy incidents made a deep impression
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: upon the mind of the virtuous Antonia, who, waiving every
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: other consideration, would have personally appeared for the vindication of
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: her husband's honor, had not. We dissuaded her from such
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: a rash undertaking by demonstrating her inability to contend with
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: such a powerful antagonist, and representing that her appearance would
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: be infallibly attended with the ruin of Seraphina, who would
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: certainly fall into the hands of the villain to whom
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: she had been contracted. We exhorted her to wait patiently
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: for some happy revolution of fortune, and encouraged her with
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: the hope of Don Diego's exerting himself effectually in his
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: own defense. Meanwhile, our worthy landlord was suddenly cut off
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: by death, and his widow being resolved to retire into
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: her own country, we secretly embarked in the same ship
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: and arrived in England about eighteen months ago. And Tonia
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: still continued to pine over the ruin of her house.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: As she could hear no tidings of Don Diego. She
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: concluded he was dead and mourned with unabating sorrow in vain.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: I assured her that soon as my own affairs should
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: be adjusted, I would exert my whole endeavors to find
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: and succor him. She could not imagine that a man
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: of his spirit and disposition would live so long in obscurity,
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: and her affliction derived new force from the death of
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: the consul's widow, with whom she had lived in the
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: most unbounded intimacy and friendship. From that day her health
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: evidently declined. She foresaw her dissolution and comforted herself with
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: the hope of seeing her husband and her friend in
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: a place where no treachery is felt and no sorrow
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: is known. Confident of my integrity and the purity of
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: my love, she in the most pathetic terms, recommended Seraphina
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: to my care. Ha weepest thou fair excellence at the
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: remembrance of that tender when the good Antonia, on the
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: bed of death, joined thy soft hand to mine and said,
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: rinaldo I bequeath this orphan to your love. It is
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: a sacred pledge which, if you cherish with due honor
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: and regard internal peace and happiness, will ever smile within
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: your bosom. But if you treat it with indifference, dishonor
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: or neglect, just Heaven will punish your breach of trust
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: with everlasting disappointments and disquiet. Senor don Diego, I see
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: you are moved, and therefore will not dwell on such
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: distressful circumstances. The excellent Antonia exchanged this life for a
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: more happy state, And so exquisite was the sorrow of
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: the tender hearted Seraphina as to torture me with the
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: apprehension that she would not long survive her pious mother.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: How I obeyed the injunctions of that departing saint Monymia,
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: for that name she now assumed, can testify, until that
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: artful serpent fathom glided into our mutual confidence, abused our ears,
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: poison our unsuspected faith, and affect that fatal breach, productive
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: of all the misery and vexation which we have suffered,
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: and which is now so happily expelled. Heaven said the
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: Castilian hath visited me for the sins and errors of
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: my youth. Yet such mercy hath been mingled with its chastisements.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: I dare not murmur or repine. The tears of penitence
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: and sorrow shall water my Antonio's grave. As for Mendoza,
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: I rejoice at his treachery, by which the obligation of
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: my promise is canceled, and my honor fully acquitted. He
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: shall not triumph in his guilt. My services, my character
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: and innocence shall soon confront his perfidy, and I hope
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: defeat his interest. The King is just and gracious, nor
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: is my family in name unknown. Here the Jew interposing
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: presented to him a letter from a person of consequence
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: at Madrid, whom Joshua had interested in the cause of
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: Don Diego. That nobleman had already found means to represent
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: the case of Zealous to his Majesty, who had actually
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: ordered Don Manuel to be confined until the injured person
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: should appear to justify himself and prosecute his accuser according
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: to the terms of law. At the same time, Don
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: Diego was summoned to present himself before the King within
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: a limited time to answer to the charge which Mendoza
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: had brought against him. The Spaniard's heart overflowed with gratitude
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: and joy when he read this intimation. He embraced the Jew, who,
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: before Zealous could give utterance to his thoughts, told him
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: that the Spanish ambassador at London, having been prepossessed in
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: his favor, craved the honor of seeing Don Diego, and
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: that he Joshua, was ready to conduct him to the house.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: Then is my heart at rest, cried the Castilian. The
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: house of Zealous once more shall lift up its head.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: I shall again revisit my native country with honor, and
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: abase the villain who hath soiled my fame. Oh, my children,
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 1: this day is replete with such joy and satisfaction as
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: I did not think had been in the power of
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: Heaven to grant without the interposition of a miracle. To you, Rinaldo,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: to you, illustrious lady, and to these worthy gentlemen. Am
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: I indebted for the restoration of that for which alone
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: I wished to live? And when my heart ceases to
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: retain the obligation, may I forfeit the name of a Castilian,
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: and scorn and dishonor be my portion. Perhaps all Europe
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: could not produce another company so happy as that which
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: now sat down to dinner in the house of Madame Clement,
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: whose own benevolent heart was peculiarly adapted for such enjoyment.
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: The lovers feasted their eyes more than their appetite, by
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: a tender intercourse of glances, which needed not the slow
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: interpretation of speech, while the Spaniard regarded them alternately with
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: looks of wonder and paternal joy, and every individual surveyed
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: the all deserving pair with admiration and esteem. Seraphina, taking
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: the advantage of this general satisfaction, when the heart softened
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: into complacency, deposits every violent thought. I must now said,
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: she try my interest with rinaldo. The good company shall
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: bear witness to my triumph for repulse. I do not
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: ask you to forgive, but to withhold your vengeance from
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: the wretched fathom. His fraud ingratitude and villany are I
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: believe unrivaled. Yet his base designs have been defeated, and
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: Heaven perhaps hath made him the involuntary instrument for bringing
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: our constancy in virtue to the test. Besides, his perfidy
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: is already punished with the last degree of human misery
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: and disgrace. The doctor, who has traced him in all
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: his conduct and vicissitudes of fortune, will draw a picture
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: of his present wretchedness, which I doubt not will move
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: your compassion, as it hath already excited mine. The generous
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: hostess was ready to enforce this charitable proposal with all
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: her eloquence, when Melville, with a look that well expressed
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: his magnanimity of love, replied, such a boone becomes the
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: gentle Seraphina. Oh, every moment furnishes me with fresh matter
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: to admire the virtues of thy soul. If thou, whose
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: ten heart hath been so rent with misery and anguish,
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: canst intercede for thy tormentor, who now suffers in his turn?
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: Shall I refuse to pardon the miserable wretch. No, let
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: me glory in imitating the great example, and solicit Don
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: Diego in behalf of the same miscreant, whose perfidious barbarity
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: cost him such intolerable woe. Enough, cried the Castilian, I
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: have disclaimed the vindictive principles of a Spaniard, and leave
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: the miserable object to the sting of his own conscience,
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: which soon or late will not fail to avenge the
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: wrongs we have sustained from his deceit. Chapter sixty six.
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: The history draws near a period. Universal was the applause
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: which they acquired by this noble sacrifice of their resentment.
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: The afternoon was spent in the utmost harmony and good humor,
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: and at the earnest solicitation of Rinaldo, whose fancy still
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: harbored the apprehensions of another separation, Don Diego consented that
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: the indissoluble knot should be tied between that young gentleman
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: and Seraphina in two days, and the place disappointed for
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: the ceremony was the very church where they had been
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: restored to the arms of each other. The lovely bride,
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: with a silent blush that set her lover's heart on fire,
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: submitted to this determination, in consequence of which the company
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: was bespoke for that auspicious hour, and the evening being
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: pretty far advanced, they took leave of the ladies and
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: retired to their respective homes. Don Diego and his future
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: son in law being reconducted to their lodgings in the
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: coach of the jew, who, taking an opportunity of being
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: alone with Melville, observed that it would be necessary on
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: this occasion to supply the Castilian with a sum of
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: money in order to support his dignity and independence in
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: furnishing Seraphina with everything suitable to her rank and merit,
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: and that he would willingly accommodate him, provided he knew
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: how to propose it, so as to give no offense
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: to his punctilious disposition. Rinaldo, thanking him for this generous anticipation,
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: advised him to solicit the Spaniard's correspondence in the way
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: of business, and to put the whole on the footing
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: of his own interest, by which means Don Diego's delicacy
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: could sustain no affront. Fraught with this instruction, the Israelite
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: desired a private audience of the Castilian, in which, after
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: an apology for the freedom of his demand, Senior Don
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: Diego said he, as your fortune hath been so long
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: embezzled by your adversary in Spain, and your correspondence with
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: that country entirely cut off, it is not to be
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: supposed that your finances are at present in such a
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: condition as to maintain the splendor of your family. Count
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: de Melville's whole fortune is at your command, and had
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: not he been afraid of giving umbrage to the peculiar
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: delicacy of your sentiments, he would have pressed you to
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: use it for your convenience. For my own part, over
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: and above the inclination I have to serve Don Diego,
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: I consult my own private advantage in desiring you to
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: accept my service. On this occasion, money is the chief
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: commodity in which I deal, and if you honor me
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: with your commands, I shall be a gainer by my obedience.
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: Don Diego replied with a smile that denoted how well
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: he understood the meaning of this address. Surely, Signor, I
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: am bound by the strongest ties to exert my utmost
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: endeavors for your advantage, and I pray God this your
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: proposal may have that issue. I am well acquainted with
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: the Count's generosity and refined notions of honor, and too
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: much obliged by him already to hesitate with punctilious reserve
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: in accepting his future assistance. Nevertheless, since you have contrived
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: a scheme for removing all scruples of that sort, I
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: shall execute it with pleasure, and in the form of business,
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: you shall have all the security I can give for
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: what shall be necessary to answer my present occasions. The
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: preliminaries being thus settled, Joshua advanced for his use a
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: thousand pounds, for which he would take neither bond note
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: nor receipt, desiring only that the Castilian would mark it
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: in his own pocket book, that the debt might appear
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: in case any accident should befall the borrower. Although the
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: Spaniard had been accustomed to the uncommon generosity of Melville,
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: he could not help wondering at this nobleness of behavior,
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: so little to be expected from any merchant, much less
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: from a Jewish broker. While this affair was on the anvil, Rinaldo,
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: who could no longer withhold the communication of his happiness
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: from his sister and relations in Germany, took up the
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: pen and, in a letter to his brother in law,
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: recounted all the circumstances of the surprising turn of fate
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: which he had experienced since his arrival in England. He
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: likewise related the story of Don Diego, informed them of
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: the day appointed for his nuptials, and entreated the Major
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: to make a journey to London with his wife, or,
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: if that should be impracticable, to come as far as Brussels,
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: where they should be met by him and his Seraphina.
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: There was now but one day between him and the
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: accomplishment of his dearest wish, and that was spent in
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: procuring a license and adjusting the preparations for the Grand Festival.
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: Don Diego, in the forenoon visited Madame Clement, to whom
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: he repeated his warm acknowledgments of her bounty and maternal
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: affection to his daughter, and presented to Seraphina bank notes
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: to the amount of five hundred pounds to defray the
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: necessary expense for her wedding ornaments. All the previous steps
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: being taken for the solemnization of this interesting event, and
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: the hour of appointment arrived, the bridegroom, accompanied by his
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: father in law, hastened to the place of rendezvous, which
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: was the vestry room of the church. We have already
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: described where they were received by the good clergyman in
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: his canonicals, and here they had not waited many minutes
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: when they were joined by Madame Clement and the amiable bride,
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: escorted by the friendly physician, who had all along borne
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: such a share in their concerns. Sarapina was dressed in
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: a sack of white satin, and the ornaments of her
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: head were adjusted in the Spanish fashion, which gave a
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: peculiar air to her appearance and an additional spirit to
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: those attractions which engaged the heart of each beholder. There
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: was nothing remarkable in the habit of Rinaldo, who had
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: copied the plainness and elegance of his mistress, But when
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: she entered the place, his features were animated with a
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: double proportion of vivacity, and their eyes meeting seemed to
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: kindle a blaze which diffused warmth and joy through the
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: countenances of all present. After a short pause, her father
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: led her to the altar and gave her away to
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: the transported Rinaldo, before the priest, who performed the ceremony
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: and bestowed the nuptial benediction on this enraptured pair. The
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: sanction of the church being thus obtained, they withdrew into
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: the vestry, where Melville sealed his title on her rosy lips,
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: and presented his wife to the company, who embraced her
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: in their turns with fervent wishes for their mutual happiness.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: Though the scene of this transaction was remote from any
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: inhabited neighborhood, the church was surrounded by a crowd of people, who,
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: with uncommon demonstration of surprise and admiration, petitioned Heaven to
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: bless so fair a couple. Such indeed was their eagerness
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: to see them, that some lives were endangered by the
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: pressure of the crowd, which attended them with loud acclamations
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: to the coach. After the bridegroom had deposited in the
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: hands of the minister one hundred pounds for the benefit
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: of the poor of that parish, and thrown several handful
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: of money among the multitude. Seraphina re embarked in Madame
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: Clement's convenience with that good lady in Don Diego, while Rinaldo,
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: with the clergyman and doctor, followed in Joshua's coach to
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: a pleasant country house upon the Thames, at a distance
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: of a few miles from London. This the jew had
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: borrowed from the owner for a few days, and there
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: they were received by that honest Hebrew, who had provided
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: a very elegant entertainment for the occasion. He had also
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: bespoke a small but excellent band of music, which regaled
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: their ears while they sat at dinner, and the afternoon,
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: being calm and serene, he prevailed on them to take
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: the air on the river in a barge which he
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: had prepared for the purpose. But notwithstanding this diversity of amusement,
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: Rinaldo would have found it the longest day he had
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: ever passed, had not his imagination been diverted by an
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: incident which employed his attention. During the remaining part of
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: the evening, they had drunk tea and engaged in a
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: party at whist when they were surprised with a noise
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: of contention from a public house that fronted the windows
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: of the apartment in which they sat. Alarmed at this uproar,
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 1: they forsook their cards, and, throwing up the casement, beheld
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: a hearse surrounded by four men on horseback, who had
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: stopped the carriage and violently pulled the driver from his seat.
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: This uncommon arrest had engaged the curiosity of the publican's family,
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: who stood at the door to observe the consequence, when
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden appeared a person in canonicals, well mounted, who,
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: riding up to those who maltreated the driver, bestowed upon
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 1: one of them such a blow with the butt end
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: of his whip, as laid him sprawling on the ground,
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: and springing from his saddle upon the box, took the
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: reins into his own hand, swearing with great vehemence that
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: he would murder every man who should attempt to obstruct
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: the hearse. The good priest who had married Rinaldo, was
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: not a little scandalized at this ferocious behavior in a clergyman,
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: and could not help saying aloud he was a disgrace
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: to the cloth. When the horseman, looking up to the window, replied, sir,
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: may I be d if any man in England has
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: a greater respect for the cloth than I have? But
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: at present I am quite distracted, so saying, he whipped
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: up the horses and had actually disentangled the hearse from
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: those who surrounded it, when he was opposed by another troop,
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: one of whom alighted with great expedition and cut the
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: harness so as that he could not possibly proceed. Finding
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: himself thus driven to bay, he leaped upon the ground
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: and exercised his weapon with such amazing strength and agility
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: that several of his antagonists were left motionless on the field,
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: before he was overpowered and disarmed by dint of numbers
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: who assailed him on all sides. The mad parson, being
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: thus taken prisoner, an elderly person of a very prepossessing appearance,
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: went up to the hearse, and, unbolting the door, a
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: young lady sprung out and shrieking, ran directly to the
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: public house, to the infinite astonishment and affright of the
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: whole family, who believed it was the spirit of the
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: deceased person whose body lay in the carriage. Rinaldo, who
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: was with difficulty restrained from interposing in behalf of the clergyman.
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: Against such odds, no sooner perceived this apparition, than supposing
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: her to be some distressed damsel. His quixodism awoke. He
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: descended in an instant and rushed into the house. Among
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: those that pursued the fair phantom, Don Diego and the
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: physician took the same road, while the real clergyman and
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: Joshua tarried with the ladies, who were by this time
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: very much interested in the event. Melville found the young
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: lady in the hands of the old gentleman who had
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: released her from the hearse, and who now bitterly upbraided
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: her for her folly and disobedience, while she protested with
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 1: great vivacity that whatever she might suffer from his severity,
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: she would never submit to the hateful match he had proposed,
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: nor break the promise she had already made to the gentleman,
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: who now attempted to rescue her from the tyranny of
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: a cruel father. This declaration was followed by a plentiful
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: shower of tears, which the father could not behold with
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: unmoistened eyes, although when he reviled her with marks of
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: uncommon displeasure, in turning to the count, I appeal to you, sir,
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: said he, whether I have not reason to curse the
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: undutiful obstinacy of that pert baggage and renounce her forever
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: as an alien to my blood. She has for some
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: months been solicited in marriage by an honest citizen, a
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 1: thirty thousand pound man, and instead of listening to such
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: an advantageous proposal, she hath bestowed her heart upon a
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: young fellow not worth a groat. Ah, you degenerate hussy.
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: This comes of your plays and romances. If thy mother
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: were not a woman of an unexceptionable life and conversation,
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: I should verily believe thou art No child of mine
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: run away with a beggar for shame, I suppose, replied Rinaldo.
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: The person to whom your daughter's affection inclines is that
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: clergyman who exerted himself so manfully at the door. Clergyman
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: cried the other ad, ad he has more of the
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: devil than the church about him. A ruffian. He has
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: for aught, I know, murdered the worthy gentleman whom I
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: intended for my son in law, and the rogue. If
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: I had not kept out of his way, would I
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 1: suppose have served me with the same sauce me who
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: had been his master for many years and had resolved
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: to make a man of him. Sir, he was my
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: own clerk, and this is the return I have met
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: with from the serpent which I cherished in my bosom.
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: Here he was interrupted by the arrival of the citizen
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: for whom he had expressed such concern that gentlemen had
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: received a contusion upon one eye, by which the sight
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: was altogether obstructed, so that he concluded he should never
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: retrieve the use of that organ, and with great clamor,
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: took all the spectators to witness the injury he had sustained.
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: He entered the room with manifest perturbation, demanded satisfaction of
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: the father, and peremptorily declared it should not be a
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: lost ie to him if there was law in England.
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: This unseasonable demand and the boisterous manner in which it
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: was made, did not at all suit the present humor
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 1: of the old gentleman, who told him peevishly. He owed
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 1: him no eye and bade him go and ask reparation
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: of the person who had done him wrong. The young lady,
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: snatching this favorable occasion, earnestly, entreated Melville and his company
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: to intercede with her father in behalf of her lover.
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: She assured them was a young gentleman of a good
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: family an uncommon merit, and in compliance with her request,
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: they invited him and his daughter to the house in
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: which they lodged, where they would be disencumbered of the
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 1: crowd which this dispute had gathered together, and more at
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: leisure to consult about the measures necessary to be taken.
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: The old gentleman thanked them for their courtesy, which he
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: did not think proper to refuse, and while he led,
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: or rather hold Mademoiselle over the way under the auspices
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: of the Castilian Rinaldo, set the lover at liberty, made
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: him a tender of his good offices, and advised him
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: to wait at the public house for an happy issue
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 1: of their negotiation. The pseudo parson was very much affected
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: by this generous proffer, for which he made so suons
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: udable acknowledgments, and protested before God he would die a
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: thousand deaths rather than part with his dear Charlotte. Her
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: father no sooner entered the apartment than he was known
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: by Joshua to be a considerable traitor in the city
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: of London, and the merchant was glad to find himself
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: among his acquaintance. He was so full of the story
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: which had brought him thither that he had scarce sat
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: down when he began to complain of his hard fate
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: in having an only child who was so mean, stubborn,
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: and contumacious, And every sentence was concluded with an apostrophe
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: of reproaches to the delinquent. The Jew, having allowed him
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: to wring out his alarm, condoled his misfortune, and gravely
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: counseled the young lady to wean her affections from such
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: an unworthy object, for he supposed her favorite was a
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: man of no principle or liberal endowments, otherwise her father
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: would not exclaim so bitterly against her conduct. Charlotte, who
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: wanted neither beauty nor understanding, assured him that her lover's
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: character was in all respects unblemished, for the truth of
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: which assertion. She appealed to to her papa, who owned
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: with reluctance that the young man was a gentleman by birth,
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: that he had served him with remarkable diligence and integrity,
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: and that his accomplishments were far superior to his station
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: in life. But then said he the fellow has not
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: a shilling of his own, and would you have me
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: give away my daughter to a beggar? God forbid, cried
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: the Jew. I always understood you possessed an ample fortune
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: and am sorry to find it otherwise. Otherwise, cried the citizen,
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: with some acrimony. Take care what you say, sir. A
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: merchant's credit is not to be tampered with. I beg
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: your pardon, answered the Hebrew. I concluded that your circumstances
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 1: were bad because you objected to the poverty of the
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: young man after you had owned he was possessed of
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: every other qualification. To make your daughter happy, For it
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: is not to be imagined that you would thwart her
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: inclinations or seek to render an only child miserable on
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: account of an obstacle which you yourself could easily remove.
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: Let us suppose you can afford to give with your
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: daughter ten thousand pounds, which would enable this young man
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: to live with credit and reputation, and engage advantageously in
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: trade for which you say he is well qualified. The alternative, then,
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: will be whether you would rather see her in the
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: arms of a deserving youth whom she loves, enjoying all
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: the comforts of life, with a moderate fortune, which it
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: will always be in your own power to improve, or
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: tied for life to a moneyed man whom she detests,
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 1: cursing her heart fate and despising that superfluity of wealth
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: in spite of which she finds herself so truly wretched.
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: The old gentleman seemed to be startled at this observation,
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: which was reinforced by Rinaldo's saying that he would moreover
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: enjoy the unutterable pleasure of giving happiness to a worthy
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: man whose gratitude would cooperate with his love in approving
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: himself a dutiful son as well as an affectionate husband.
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: He then represented the family disquiets and dismal tragedies produced
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: from such mercenary and compulsive matches, and in conclusion, related
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: the story of Don Diego and his daughter, which, when
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: the merchant heard, he started up with marks of terror
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 1: in his countenance, and throwing up the casement, called upon
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 1: Valentine with great vociferation. This was the name of his
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: daughter's admirer, who no sooner heard the summons than he
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: flew to the spot from whence it came. And the merchant,
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: without any further preamble, seizing his hand, joined it with
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: that of Charlotte, saying, with great trepidation, here take her
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: in the name of God, and thank this honorable company
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: for your good fortune. The lovers were transported with exquisite
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: joy at this sudden determination in their favor. Valentine, having
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 1: kissed the hand of his mistress with all the eagerness
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: of rapture and acknowledged the merchant's generosity, paid his respects
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: to the ladies with a very polite address, and with
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: demonstrations of uncommon gratitude and sensibility, thanked the gentleman and
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: account in particular for their good offices, to which he
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: attributed the happiness he now enjoyed. While Saraphina and Madame
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: Clement caressed the amiable Charlotte, the rest of the company
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 1: congratulated her admirer upon his choice, and success, though the
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: clergyman could not help reprehending him for profaning the Sacerdotal habit.
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 1: Valentine heartily asked pardon for having given such cause of offense,
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: and hoped he should be forgiven, as it was a
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: disguise which he thought absolutely necessary for the execution of
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: a scheme upon which his happiness depended. He then, at
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: the request of Rinaldo, unfolded the mystery of the Hearse,
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: by giving them to understand that Charlotte's father, having got
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: inkling of their mutual passion, had dismissed his clerk and
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: conveyed his daughter to a country house in the neighborhood
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: of London, in order to cut off their correspondence. Notwithstanding
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 1: these precautions, they had found means to communicate with each
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: other by letters which were managed by a third person,
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: and his rival, being very importunate in his solicitations, they
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: had concerted the expedient of the hearse, which he provided
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: and conducted through a road contiguous to the end of
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 1: the merchants Garden, where Charlotte, being apprized of the design,
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: waited for its approach and embarked in it without hesitation.
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 1: Valentine thought himself sufficiently screened from discovery by his disguise,
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 1: but he was unfortunately met by a servant of the family,
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: who recollected his features and immediately gave the alarm, upon
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 1: which the father and his friends took horse and pursued
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: them by two different roads until they were overtaken at
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: this place. He had scarce finished this short relation when
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: his rival, bluntly, entering the apartment with an handkerchief tied
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: round his eye, committed Valentine to the charge of a constable,
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 1: who attended him by a warrant from a justice of
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: the peace in that neighborhood, and threatened to prosecute the
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 1: merchant on an action of damages for the loss of
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 1: an eye, which he said he had sustained in his service.
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: The company endeavored to appease this citizen by representing that
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: his misfortune was no other than a common inflammation, nor
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: was it owing to malice a forethought, but entirely to
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: the precipitate passion of an ans sensed young man, who,
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: by the bye acted in his own defense. At the
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 1: same time, the merchant promised to make any reasonable satisfaction,
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 1: upon which the other demanded an obligation importing that he would,
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: in ten days from the date, bestow upon him his
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: daughter in marriage with a portion of fifteen thousand pounds, or,
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 1: in case of failure, pay him double the sum. The merchant,
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 1: exasperated at this extravagant demand, told him flatly he had
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: already disposed of his daughter to Valentine, who he believed
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 1: was a much more deserving man, and that he was
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: ready to wait upon the magistrate who had granted the warrant,
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: in order to give bail for his future son in law.
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: This was a mortifying declaration to the plaintiff, though he
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 1: condoled himself with the hope of being a gainer by
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: the loss of his eye, and now the pain was over,
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: would have been very sorry to find his sight retrieved.
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: The old gentleman, Joshua and Rinaldo accompanied the prisoner to
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: the house of the Justice, where he was immediately admitted
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: to bail. Upon their turn, Valentine shifted his dress, and
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: they sucked together with great cordiality and mirth maintained at
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 1: the expense of the discarded lover. After supper, Don Diego
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: walked a minuet with Madame Clement, for whom by this
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 1: time he had contracted an extraordinary degree of affection. Valentine
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: had the honor to dance with the incomparable Seraphina, whose
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: beauty and attractions dazzled the eyes of the newcomers and
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 1: struck her bashful partner with awe and confusion. And Melville
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 1: presented his hand to the agreeable Charlotte, who performed so
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 1: much to the satisfaction of her father that he could
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 1: not help expressing his joy and pride. He praised God
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 1: for throwing him in the way of our company, and
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: engaged the clergyman to unite the young couple, after having
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: appointed a day for the ceremony, and invited all present
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: to the wedding. The evening, having been insensibly consumed in
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: these avocations, and the night pretty far advanced, the ladies
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: withdrew without ceremony, and the retreat of Seraphina filled Rinaldo's
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 1: breast with tumult and emotion. His blood began to flow
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 1: in impetuous tides, his heart to beat with redoubled vigor
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 1: and velocity, while his eyes seemed to flash with more
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 1: than human splendor. Now his imagination began to anticipate with
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 1: the enthusiastic rage of an inspired sybyl he was instantaneously
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: transported from the conversation, and every nerve was braced to
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: such a degree of impatience that human nature could not
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 1: long endure the tension. He, therefore, having withstood the impulse
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 1: about a quarter of an hour, at length, gave way
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: to his impetuosity, and, springing from his friends, found himself
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: in a dark passage at the farther end of which
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 1: he perceived Madame Clement coming out of a chamber with
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: a light, which, at sight of him, she set down
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: and vanished in a moment. This was the star that
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 1: pointed to his paradise. He hailed the signal, entered the apartment, and,
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: like a lion rushing on his prey, approached the nuptial bed,
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 1: where Seraphina, surrounded by all the graces of beauty, softness, sentiment,
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: and truth, lay trembling as a victim at the altar,
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 1: and strove to hide her blushes from his view. The
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 1: door was shut, the light extinguished. He owned his lot
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: was more than mortal man could claim. Here, let me
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: draw the decent veil that ought to shade the secret
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: mysteries of hymen away unhallowed scoffers who profane with idle
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 1: pleasantry or immodest hint these holy rites, and leave those
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 1: happy lovers to enjoy in one another's arms unutterable bliss,
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 1: the well earned palm of virtue and of constancy, which
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: had undergone the most severe refinement, a more deserving pear.
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: Knight's curtain shrouds not in its dark extent. The thoughts
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 1: of Rinaldo's felicity threw a damp on the spirits of Valentine,
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 1: who saw the term of his probation protracted a few
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 1: days longer, and could not help wishing in his heart
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 1: that he had achieved the adventure which would have abridged
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: his expectation, though at the expense of the old gentleman's displeasure,
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 1: he filled a bumper to the health of the bride
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: and bridegroom, and, throwing up his eyes with marks of
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 1: admir exclaimed, how happy is the count alas five days
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: longer must I reign my impatience? It is but reasonable
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 1: you rogue that your betters should have the start of you,
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 1: said the merchant, who did him justice in the glass
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 1: and counseled him to drown his impatience with good claret.
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: The youth followed his advice, and it was late before
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 1: the company retired to rest. These citizens, however, resolved to
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 1: seize an opportunity of rallying the new married couple according
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: to custom, and with that view, arose early in the
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 1: morning on the supposition of finding them still asleep. But
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 1: they were not a little surprised when they entered the
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: breakfasting room to see Rinaldo and his amiable bedfellow already
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: dressed and awaiting to do the honors of the house.
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: The old gentleman would fain have cracked a joke upon
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 1: their extraordinary despatch, but he was so much overawed by
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 1: the dignity and tamed by the sweetness of Saraphina's carriage,
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 1: that he durst not give utterance to his conception, and
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 1: Valentine's stood silent and abashed, as in the presence of
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: a superior being. After breakfast, these gentlemen and Charlotte again
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 1: expressed their sense of the obligations they owed to this
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 1: happy family, repeated their invitation, and taking leave, returned to
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: London in a coach that was provided overnight. Our friends
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: being thus left to themselves. Don Diego turned towards Melville.
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: Now said he that I have yielded to the impatience
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: of your love, as well as to the eagerness of
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 1: my own desire to make you happy. I must beg
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 1: leave to interrupt for a little while the stream of
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: your mutual pleasure and propose a melancholy excursion, which, however,
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 1: will not be wholly void of enjoyment. I have too
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: long delayed the performance of my duty at Antonia's grave.
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 1: Let us spend the forenoon in that pious pilgrimage. I
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: will drop a few tears to the memory of that
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 1: excellent woman, and never afterwards shall my friends be troubled
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 1: with my grief. The proposal being universally approved, they set
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 1: out for the place, which had oft been visited by
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: the gentle Seraphina, who conducted her father to a black
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 1: marble stone which Rinaldo had ordered to be laid over
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: the grave. And as he kneeled to kiss the monument,
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 1: he perceived this plain inscription in the Spanish tongue, Antonia
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: the zealous primera, and to do lo k e s
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 1: cerebueno why sin segundo, and to do low k fue
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 1: ser desticado ka dad condios, that is Antonia d zealous,
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 1: unmatched in virtue, and unequaled in misfortune. Adieu, O faithful record,
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: cried the Castilian, smiting his breast, while his tears distilled
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 1: upon the marble. Thy goodness was the gift of Heaven,
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 1: But thy misfortunes were derived from the guilt of Don Diego.
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: Yet his sorrow shall expiate his offense, and his penitence
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: find favor in the sight of Heaven. Rest rest ill
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 1: fated virtue. Eternal peace shall guard thy tomb, an angel's
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 1: minister to thy unspotted shade. Nor shall thine ashes lie
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: in dark obscurity. Here will I raise a mon more
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: suited to thy excellence, and name Seraphina melted with filial tenderness.
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 1: Nor were the rest unmoved at this affecting scene, which
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 1: Don Diego did not quit without reluctance Chapter sixty seven,
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 1: the longest and the last. The nature of this visit
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 1: had softened every heart and saddened every countenance. And they
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 1: walked in solemn silence to the other side of the
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 1: churchyard in order to regain their carriages. When at the
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 1: turning of the style, they saw a young woman in
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: wretched attire, running out of a poor habitation, wringing her
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 1: hands in all the agony of despair. Notwithstanding the distraction
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 1: in her countenance and the meanness of her apparel, she
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: discovered a regularity of features and a delicacy of air,
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: which did not at all correspond with the misery of
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 1: her equipage. These exhibitions of extreme distress soon attracted the
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: notice and compassion of our company, and Melville's beauteous helpmate,
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 1: accosting this forlorn damsel with a pity breathing aspect, asked
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: the cause of her dis Alas dear lady, cried the other,
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: with all the emphasis of woe. An unhappy gentleman now
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 1: breathes his last within this inhospitable hovel, amidst such excess
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 1: of misery as would melt the most flinty bosom. What then,
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 1: must I feel? Who am connected with him by the
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 1: strongest ties of love and conjugal affection? Who is the
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 1: unfortunate object? Said the physician. He was once well known
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: in the gay world, replied the young woman. His name
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: is Fathom. Every individual of the company started at mention
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: of that detested name, Seraphina began to tremble with emotion,
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 1: and Rinaldo, after a short pause, declared he would go in,
• 2:21:42
  Speaker 1: not with a view to exult over his misery, but
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: in order to contemplate the catastrophe of such a wicked life,
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: that the moral might be the more deeply engraved on
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 1: his remembrance. The young countess, whose tender heart could not
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 1: bear the shock of such a spectacle, retired to the
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 1: coach with Madame Clement and the jew, while Rinaldo, accompanied
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 1: by the rest, entered a dismal apartment altogether void of
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 1: furniture and convenience, where they beheld the wretched hero of
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 1: these memoirs, stretched almost naked upon straw, insensible, convulsed, and
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: seemingly in the grasp of death. He was worn to
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 1: the bone, either by famine or distemper. His face was
• 2:22:19
  Speaker 1: overshadowed with hair and filth, His eyes were sunk, glazed
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 1: and distorted, his nostrils dilated, his lips covered with a
• 2:22:26
  Speaker 1: black slew, and his complexion faded into a pale clay
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 1: color tending to a yellow hue. In a word, the
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 1: extremity of indigence, squalor, and distress could not be more
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 1: feelingly represented. While Melville perused this melancholy lesson, and groaning cried,
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 1: behold the fate of man, he perceived a letter in
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: the right hand of the unfortunate fathom, which lay fast
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: clenched across his breast. Curious to know the contents of
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 1: this paper, which the young woman said he had kept
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: in that position for several days, he drew nearer the
• 2:22:59
  Speaker 1: wretched couch and was not a little surprised to see
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 1: it addressed to the right Honorable Rinaldo, Count de Melville,
• 2:23:04
  Speaker 1: to the care of mister Joshua Manessa, merchant in London.
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 1: When he attempted to disengage this billet from the authour's hand,
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 1: the sorrowing female fell upon her knees, entreating him to desist,
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 1: and telling him she had promised upon oath to communicate
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 1: the contents to no person upon earth, but to carry
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 1: the letter, upon her husband's decease, to the gentleman to
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 1: whose care it was directed. Rinaldo assured her, upon his
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 1: honor that he was the very Rinaldo, Count de Melville,
• 2:23:33
  Speaker 1: for whom it was intended, And the young creature was
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 1: so much confounded at this information that before she could
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: recollect herself. Melville had opened the billet and read these words.
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 1: If this paper should fall into the hands of the
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: noble Rinaldo, he will understand that Fathom was the most
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 1: execrable traitor that ever imposed upon unsuspecting benevolence, or attempted
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 1: to betray a generous benefactor. His whole life was a
• 2:23:57
  Speaker 1: series of fraud, perfidy, and the most abominable ingratitude. But
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: of all the crimes that lay heavy upon his soul,
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 1: his being accessory to the death of the incomparable Seraphina,
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 1: whose father he had also robbed, was that for which
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 1: he despaired of Heaven's forgiveness, notwithstanding the dreadful compunction and
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 1: remorse which have long preyed upon his heart, together with
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 1: the incredible misery and deplorable death, which by this time
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 1: he hath undergone. Though these sufferings and sorrows cannot atone
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 1: for his enormous guilt, perhaps they will excite the compassion
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 1: of the humane Count de Melville. At least this confession,
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 1: which my conscience dictates under all the terrors of death
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: and futurity, may be a warning for him to avoid. Henceforth,
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 1: A smiling villain like the execrable Fathom, upon whose miserable soul,
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: Almighty God have mercy. Rinaldo was deeply affected with the
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: contents of this scroll, which denoted such horror and despair.
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: He saw there could be no dissimulation or sinister design
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 1: in this profession of penitence. He beheld the condition of
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 1: the writer, which put all his humane passions in commotion,
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 1: so that he remembered nothing of Fathom but his present distress.
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 1: He could scarce maintain those indications which might have been
• 2:25:09
  Speaker 1: justly deemed the effect of weakness and infirmity, And having
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: desired the physician and clergyman to contribute their assistance for
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 1: the benefit of that wretcho'us soul and body, he ran
• 2:25:19
  Speaker 1: to the coach and communicated the letter to the ladies,
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 1: at the same time drawing a picture of the object
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 1: he had seen, which brought tears into the eyes of
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 1: the gentle Seraphina, who earnestly entreated her Lord to use
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 1: his endeavors for the relief and recovery of the unhappy man,
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 1: that he might, if possible, live to enjoy the benefit
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 1: of mature repentance, and not die in that dreadful despair,
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 1: which he manifested in the letter Rinaldo. Returning to the house,
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: found the pious clergyman reading prayers with great fervency, while
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 1: Don Diego stood with his right hand upon his breast,
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: looking steadfastly upon the agonizing Fathom, and the young woman
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 1: kneeled with her streaming eyes lifted up to heaven in
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 1: an ecstasy of grief and devotion. The physician had run
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: to an apothecary's shop in the neighborhood, from whence he
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: soon returned with an assistant, who applied a large blister
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 1: to the back of the miserable patient, while the female,
• 2:26:13
  Speaker 1: by the doctor's direction, moistened his mouth with a cordial
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 1: which he had prescribed. These charitable steps being taken, Count
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 1: de Melville entreated the apothecary's servant to procure a tent
• 2:26:23
  Speaker 1: bed for the accommodation of the sick person with all
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 1: imaginable dispatch, and in less than an hour one was
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: actually pitched and Fathom lifted into it, after he had
• 2:26:32
  Speaker 1: been shifted and in some measure purified from the dregs
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: of his indigence. During this transaction, the ladies were conducted
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: to a tavern not far off where dinner was bespoke
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: that they might be at hand to see the effect
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 1: of their charity, which was not confined to what we
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: have already described, but extended so far that in a
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: little time the apartment was comfortably furnished, and the young
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: creature provided with change of apparel and money to procure
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: the necessaries of subsistence. Notwithstanding all their care, the wretched
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 1: Fathom still remained insensible, and the doctor pronounced a very
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 1: unfavorable prognostic, while he ordered a pair of additional vesigatories
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 1: to be laid upon his arms, and other proper medicines
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 1: to be administered. After dinner, the ladies ventured to visit
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: the place, and when Seraphina crossed the threshold, the weeping
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 1: female fell at her feet, and, kissing her robe, exclaimed, sure,
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 1: you are an angel from heaven. The alteration in her
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 1: dress had made a very agreeable change in her appearance,
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 1: so that the Countess could now look upon her without
• 2:27:35
  Speaker 1: shuddering at her distress. And as Fathom was not in
• 2:27:39
  Speaker 1: a condition to be disturbed, she took this opportunity of
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 1: inquiring by what steps that unfortunate wretch was conveyed from
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: the prison in which she knew he had been confined
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: to the place where he now lay in such extremity,
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 1: and by what occurrence he had found a wife in
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 1: such an abyss of misfortune. Here the other's tears began
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 1: to flow afresh. I am ashamed, said she to reveal
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 1: my own folly. Yet I dare not refuse a satisfaction
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 1: of this kind to a person who has laid me
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: under such signal obligations. She then proceeded to relate her story,
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 1: by which it appeared she was no other than the
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 1: fair and unhappy Eleanor whom the artful Fathom had debauched
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 1: upon his first arrival in town in the manner already
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 1: described in these memoirs. Heaven continued, she was pleased to
• 2:28:24
  Speaker 1: restore the use of my reason, which I had lost
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 1: when I found myself abandoned by the count, but all
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 1: my connection with my own family being entirely cut off,
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 1: and every door shut against a poor creature who could
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 1: procure no recommendation except the certificate signed by the Physician
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 1: of Bedlam, which, instead of introducing me to service, was
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 1: an insurmountable objection to my character. I found myself destitute
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 1: of all means of subsisting, unless I would condescend to
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 1: live the infamous and wretched life of a courtesan, an
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 1: expedient rendered palatable by the terrors of want, co operating
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: with the reflection of the irretrievable loss. I had already said,
• 2:29:01
  Speaker 1: I ask pardon for offending your chaste ears with this
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 1: impure confession of my guilt, which Heaven knows I then did,
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 1: and now do look upon with abhorrence and detestation. I
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 1: had already forfeited my innocence and wanted resolution to encounter
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 1: misery and death. Nevertheless, before I could determine to embrace
• 2:29:20
  Speaker 1: the condition of a prostitute, I was one day accosted
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 1: in the park by an elderly gentleman, who sat down
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 1: by me upon a bench, and, taking notice of the
• 2:29:29
  Speaker 1: despondence which was evident in my countenance, pressed me to
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 1: make him acquainted with the nature of my misfortune. So
• 2:29:35
  Speaker 1: much sympathy and good sense appeared in his deportment and
• 2:29:38
  Speaker 1: conversation that I gratified his request, and he, in return
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 1: for my confidence, saved me from the most horrible part
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 1: of my prospect by taking me into his protection and
• 2:29:48
  Speaker 1: reserving me for his own appetite. In this situation, I
• 2:29:52
  Speaker 1: lived a whole year until I was deprived of my
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 1: keeper by an apoplectic fit, and turned out of doors
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 1: by his relations, who did not, how however, stripped me
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 1: of the clothes and movables which I owed to his bounty.
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 1: Far from being as yet reconciled to a vicious life,
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 1: I resolved to renounce the paths of shame, and, converting
• 2:30:11
  Speaker 1: my effects into ready money, hired a small shop and
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: furnished it with haberdashery wear, intending to earn an honest
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: livelihood by the sale of these commodities, together with the
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 1: plain work in which I hoped to be employed so
• 2:30:23
  Speaker 1: soon as my talents should be known. But this scheme
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 1: did not answer my expectation. The goods spoiled upon my hands,
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: and as I was a stranger in the neighborhood, nobody
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 1: would entrust me with any other business, so that, notwithstanding
• 2:30:39
  Speaker 1: the most parsimonious economy, I ran in debt to my landlord,
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 1: who seized my effects and an hosure from whom I
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 1: had received some parcels upon credit, took out a writ
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 1: against me by virtue of which I was arrested and
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: imprisoned in the marshalsea, where I found my first seducer.
• 2:30:55
  Speaker 1: Good Heaven, what did I feel at this unexpected meeting?
• 2:30:59
  Speaker 1: Overwhelmed me as I was before with my own distress. I,
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 1: with a loud scream, fainted away, and when I recovered,
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 1: found myself in the arms of mister Fathom, who wept
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 1: over me with great affliction. All his prospects of gaiety
• 2:31:13
  Speaker 1: had now vanished, and his heart was softened by his
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 1: own misfortunes to a feeling of another's woe, as well
• 2:31:19
  Speaker 1: as to a due sense of his own guilt. He
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 1: expressed the deepest sorrow for having been the occasion of
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: my ruin. Endeavored to comfort me with a promise of assistance,
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 1: and indeed, by practicing medicine among the prisoners, made shift
• 2:31:32
  Speaker 1: to keep us both from starving. But surely no sinner
• 2:31:36
  Speaker 1: underwent such severe remorse as that which he suffered during
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 1: his imprisonment. From the day of our meeting, I never
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 1: once saw him smile. A melancholy cloud continually overhung his countenance.
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 1: He numbered the minutes by his groans. He used to
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 1: start with horror from his sleep, and striking his breast,
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 1: would exclaim o eleanor I am the worst of villains.
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 1: Sometimes he seemed disordered in his brain and raved about
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: Rinaldo and Monymia. In a word, his mind was in
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 1: a dreadful situation, and all his agonies were communicated to me,
• 2:32:11
  Speaker 1: whom by this time he had married, in order to
• 2:32:13
  Speaker 1: make some atonement for my wrongs. Wretched as he then was,
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 1: I remembered the accomplished youth who had captivated my virgin heart.
• 2:32:21
  Speaker 1: The old impression still remained. I saw his penitence, pitied,
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 1: his misfortune, and his wife, being dead, consented to join
• 2:32:28
  Speaker 1: his fate, the ceremony having been performed by a fellow
• 2:32:31
  Speaker 1: prisoner who was in orders. Though his hard hearted creditor
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 1: had no other chance of being paid than that of
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 1: setting him at liberty, he lent a deaf ear to
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 1: all our supplications, and this cruelty, conspiring with the anguish
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 1: of my husband's own reflection, affected his health and spirits
• 2:32:47
  Speaker 1: to such a degree that he could no longer earn
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: the miserable pittance which had hitherto supported our lives. Then
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 1: our calamities began to multiply. Indigence and famine stared us
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 1: in the faith, and it was with the utmost difficulty
• 2:33:02
  Speaker 1: that we resisted their attacks by selling or pledging our
• 2:33:05
  Speaker 1: wearing apparel, until we were left almost quite naked, when
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 1: we found ourselves discharged by an act passed for the
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 1: relief of insolvent debtors. This charitable law, which was intended
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 1: for a consolation to the wretched, proved to us the
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 1: most severe disaster, for we were turned out into the streets,
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 1: utterly destitute of food, raiment, and lodging. At a time
• 2:33:25
  Speaker 1: when mister Fathom was so weakened by his distemper that
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 1: he could not stand alone, I supported him from door
• 2:33:31
  Speaker 1: to door, imploring the compassion of charitable Christians, and was
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 1: at length permitted to shelter him in this miserable place,
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 1: where his disease gaining ground. He lay three days in
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 1: that deplorable condition from which he hath now been rescued,
• 2:33:44
  Speaker 1: though I fear too late, by your humanity and benevolence.
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 1: She shed a flood of tears at the conclusion of
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 1: this mournful tale, which did not fail to effect the
• 2:33:53
  Speaker 1: whole audience, especially Seraphina, who assured her that whatever should
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 1: happen to her husband, she might depend upon finding favor
• 2:34:01
  Speaker 1: and protection, provided her conduct should correspond with her professions.
• 2:34:06
  Speaker 1: While this grateful creature kissed the hand of her kind benefactress,
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 1: Fathom uttered a groan, began to stir in the bed,
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 1: and with a languid voice, called upon Eleanor, who, instantly,
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 1: withdrawing the curtain, presented the whole company to his view.
• 2:34:20
  Speaker 1: He had now retrieved the use of his perception by
• 2:34:22
  Speaker 1: the operation of the blisters, which began to torture him severely.
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 1: He looked around him with amazement and affright, and distinguishing
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 1: the three persons against whom the chief arrows of his
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 1: fraud and treachery had been leveled, he concluded that he
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 1: was now arrived at the land of departed souls, and
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: that the shades of those whom he had so grievously
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 1: injured were come to see him tormented according to his demerits.
• 2:34:45
  Speaker 1: Fraught with this notion, which was confirmed by the bodily
• 2:34:48
  Speaker 1: pain which he felt, and the appearance of the clergyman
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 1: and Joshua, whom he mistook for the ministers of vengeance,
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 1: he cried, in a tone replete with horror. Is there
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 1: no mercy? Then? For penitence? Is there no pity due
• 2:35:00
  Speaker 1: to the miseries I suffered upon earth. Save me, o
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 1: bountiful Heaven, from the terrors of everlasting woe. Hide me
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 1: from these dreadful executioners, whose looks are torture. Forgive me,
• 2:35:13
  Speaker 1: generous Castilian, oh rinaldo thou hadst once a tender heart.
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 1: I dare not lift my eyes to Seraphina, that pattern
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 1: of human excellence, who fell a victim to my atrocious guilt.
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 1: Yet her aspect is all mildness and compassion. Ha. Are
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 1: not these the drops of pity? Yes, they are the
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 1: tears of mercy. They fall like refreshing showers upon my
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 1: drooping soul, Ah murdered innocence. Wilt thou not intercede for
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 1: thy betrayer at the throne of grace. Here he was
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 1: interrupted by Melville, who, with a grave and solemn air,
• 2:35:52
  Speaker 1: pronounced great hath been thy guilt? Unhappy Ferdinand, and great
• 2:35:56
  Speaker 1: have been thy sufferings. Yet we come not to insult,
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 1: but to alleviate thy distress. Providence hath kindly defeated thy
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 1: dire intentions, which we therefore now forgive and transmit to oblivion.
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 1: Whether it be thy lot to yield up thy spirit immediately,
• 2:36:12
  Speaker 1: or to survive the dangerous malady with which thou art
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 1: at present overwhelmed. Suffer not thyself to despair, for the
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 1: mercy of Heaven is infinite, and submit to the directions
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 1: of this worthy gentleman, who will employ his skill for
• 2:36:24
  Speaker 1: thy recovery, while we shall take care to furnish thee
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 1: with necessary attendance, as too much speaking may be prejudicial
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 1: to thy health. I dispense with thy reply, and exhort
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 1: THEE to compose thyself to rest. So saying, he drew
• 2:36:39
  Speaker 1: the curtain and the company retired, leaving Fathom entranced with wonder.
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 1: The next step which Rinaldo took for the benefit of
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 1: this wretched penitent was to send for the apothecary, with
• 2:36:49
  Speaker 1: whom he left a sum of money to be expended
• 2:36:51
  Speaker 1: for the convenience of Fathom and his wife. Than he
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 1: laid injunctions upon the physician to repeat his visits, and
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 1: that gentleman, together with the clergyman and John Ushua, taking
• 2:37:01
  Speaker 1: leave of the others till next day. The count set
• 2:37:04
  Speaker 1: out with the ladies and his father in law to
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 1: the house where they had lodged the preceding night. The
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: reader may well imagine the conversation of the evening turned
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 1: wholly upon the strange occurrence of the day, which seemed
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 1: to have been concerted by supernatural prescients in order to
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 1: satisfy the vengeance and afford matter of triumph to the
• 2:37:21
  Speaker 1: generosity of those who had been so grievously injured by
• 2:37:24
  Speaker 1: the guilty fathom. Though not one of them would say
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 1: that such a miscreant ought to live, yet all concurred
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 1: in approving the offices of humanity which had been performed,
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 1: and even endeavored to find specious pretext for vindicating their compassion.
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 1: Don Diego said it would ill become a transgressor like
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 1: him to withhold his forgiveness from a sinner who had
• 2:37:43
  Speaker 1: wronged him. Madame Clement appealed to the approbation of Heaven,
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 1: which had undoubtedly directed them that way for the purpose
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 1: they had fulfilled. Seraphina observed that the crimes of the
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 1: delinquent were obliterated by his sorrow, misery, and repentance. Rinaldo
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 1: honestly owned that, exclusive of other reasons, he could not
• 2:38:04
  Speaker 1: deny himself the luxurious enjoyment of communicating happiness to his
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 1: fellow creatures. In distress, and each fervently prayed that their
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 1: charity might not be disappointed by the death of the object.
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 1: While they amused themselves in these discussions, Fathom, after having
• 2:38:20
  Speaker 1: lain some hours silent in consequence of Rinaldo's advice, could
• 2:38:24
  Speaker 1: no longer suppress the astonishment of his mind. But, addressing
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 1: himself to his wife, oh Eleanor, said he, my delirium
• 2:38:32
  Speaker 1: is now past, though I still remember the fantasies of
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 1: my distempered brain. Among other reveries, my imagination was regaled
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 1: with a vision so perfect and distinct as to emulate
• 2:38:43
  Speaker 1: truth and reality. Methought, Count de Melville, don Diego, de Zealous,
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: and the divine Seraphina, the very persons who are now
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 1: crying before the throne of Heaven for vengeance against the
• 2:38:54
  Speaker 1: guilty Fathom stood by my bedside with looks of pity
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 1: and forgiveness, and that Rinaldo's oak piece to my despairing soul.
• 2:39:02
  Speaker 1: I heard the words distinctly, I retain them in my memory.
• 2:39:07
  Speaker 1: I saw the tears trickle from Seraphina's eyes, I heard
• 2:39:11
  Speaker 1: her father utter a compassionate sigh, and should actually believe
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 1: that they were personally present, had not I long ago
• 2:39:17
  Speaker 1: seen with my own eyes the funeral procession of that
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 1: young lady, whose wrongs God pardon? And were I not
• 2:39:24
  Speaker 1: convinced that such a meeting could not be effected without
• 2:39:27
  Speaker 1: the immediate and miraculous interposition of Heaven. Yet everything I
• 2:39:31
  Speaker 1: now see corresponds with the words of Rinaldo, which still
• 2:39:34
  Speaker 1: sound in my ears. When my perception forsook me, I
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 1: lay in the most abject misery, amongst straw and thou
• 2:39:42
  Speaker 1: poor injured, innocence, wast naked and forlorn. Now I find
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 1: myself reposed in a warm, easy, comfortable bed. I see
• 2:39:51
  Speaker 1: around me the marks of human charity and care, and
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 1: the favorable change in thy appearance. Glads, my poor dejected heart, say,
• 2:39:58
  Speaker 1: whence this happy altar? Do I really awake from that
• 2:40:02
  Speaker 1: dream of misery in which we have continued so long?
• 2:40:06
  Speaker 1: Or do I still utter the extravagant ravings of a
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 1: distempered brain. Eleanor was afraid of imparting at once all
• 2:40:12
  Speaker 1: the particulars of the happy change he had undergone, lest
• 2:40:15
  Speaker 1: they might leave a dangerous impression upon his fancy, which
• 2:40:18
  Speaker 1: was not yet duly composed. She contented herself therefore with
• 2:40:23
  Speaker 1: telling him that he had been obliged to the humanity
• 2:40:26
  Speaker 1: of a gentleman and lady who chanced to pass that
• 2:40:28
  Speaker 1: way by accident, and who, understanding his deplorable case, had
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 1: furnished him with the conveniences which he now enjoyed. She
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 1: then presented to him what the doctor had directed her
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 1: to administer, and admonishing him to commit his head to
• 2:40:42
  Speaker 1: the pillow. He was favored with a breathing sweat, fell
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 1: fast asleep, and in a few hours waked again, altogether
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 1: cool and undisturbed. It was upon this occasion that his
• 2:40:52
  Speaker 1: wife explained the circumstances of that visit which had redeemed
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 1: him from extremity of wretchedness, and the jaws of death
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 1: upon which he started up, and, throwing himself upon his knees,
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 1: exclaimed all gracious power. This was the work of thy
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 1: own bounteous hand. The voice of my sorrow and repentance
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 1: hath been heard. Thou hast inspired my benefactors with more
• 2:41:13
  Speaker 1: than mortal goodness in my behalf, How shall I praise
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 1: thy name? How shall I requite their generosity? Oh? I
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 1: am bankrupt to both. Yet let me not perish until
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 1: I shall have convinced them of my reformation, and seen
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 1: them enjoying that felicity which ought to be reserved for
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 1: such consummate virtue. Next day, in the forenoon, he was
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 1: visited by the physician whom he now recollected to have
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 1: seen at the house of Madame Clement, And after having
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 1: thanked that gentlemen for his humanity and care, he earnestly
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 1: begged to know by what means Seraphina had been preserved.
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 1: When he was satisfied in this particular and given to
• 2:41:50
  Speaker 1: understand that she was now happy in the arms of
• 2:41:52
  Speaker 1: Rinaldo Blessed be God, he cried for having defeated the
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 1: villany of him who sought to part such lovers. Dear sir,
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 1: will you add one circumstance to your charity and bear
• 2:42:03
  Speaker 1: to that happy couple and the noble don diego the
• 2:42:06
  Speaker 1: respects and the remorse of a sincere penitent whom their
• 2:42:09
  Speaker 1: compassion hath raised to life. I have been such a
• 2:42:13
  Speaker 1: traitor to them that my words deserve no regard. I
• 2:42:17
  Speaker 1: will not therefore use professions. I dare not hope to
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 1: be admitted into their presence. I am indeed ashamed to
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 1: see the light of the sun. How then, could I
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 1: bear the looks of that injured family. Ah No, let
• 2:42:32
  Speaker 1: me hide myself in some obscure retreat, where I may
• 2:42:35
  Speaker 1: work out my salvation with fear and trembling, and pray
• 2:42:38
  Speaker 1: incessantly to Heaven for their prosperity. The physician promised to
• 2:42:42
  Speaker 1: represent his contrition to the Count and his lady, and
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 1: accordingly proceeded to their habitation, where he repeated these expressions
• 2:42:49
  Speaker 1: and pronounced his patient out of danger, so that their
• 2:42:53
  Speaker 1: thoughts were now employed in concerting a scheme for his
• 2:42:55
  Speaker 1: future subsistence, that he might not be exposed by indigence
• 2:42:59
  Speaker 1: to a relapse in point of morals. Rinaldo, being still
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 1: averse to any personal intercourse with such a wretch until
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 1: he should give some undoubted proofs of amendment, and as
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 1: yet afraid of entrusting him with any office that required integrity,
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 1: resolved with the approbation of all present to settle him
• 2:43:16
  Speaker 1: in a cheap county in the north of England, where
• 2:43:19
  Speaker 1: he and his wife could live comfortably on an annuity
• 2:43:22
  Speaker 1: of sixty pounds, until his behavior should entitle him to
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 1: a better provision. This resolution was just taken when Joshua
• 2:43:29
  Speaker 1: arrived with a gentleman, whom he introduced to Don Diego
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 1: as the secretary of the Spanish ambassador. After the first compliments,
• 2:43:37
  Speaker 1: the stranger told the Castilian that he waited upon him
• 2:43:40
  Speaker 1: at the desire of his Excellency, who would have come
• 2:43:43
  Speaker 1: in person had he not been confined by the gout.
• 2:43:46
  Speaker 1: Then he put into his hand a letter from the
• 2:43:48
  Speaker 1: court of Madrid, written by a nobleman of Diego's acquaintance,
• 2:43:52
  Speaker 1: who informed him that Don Manuel de Mendoza, having made
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 1: away with himself by poison in order to avoid the
• 2:43:58
  Speaker 1: disgrace of a legal conviction. His Catholic Majesty was now
• 2:44:01
  Speaker 1: convinced of Don Diego's innocence and granted him leave to
• 2:44:06
  Speaker 1: return and take possession of his honors and estate. This
• 2:44:09
  Speaker 1: information was confirmed by the secretary, who assured him that
• 2:44:13
  Speaker 1: the ambassador had orders to make him acquainted with this
• 2:44:15
  Speaker 1: favorable decision of the King. The Castilian, having first acquitted
• 2:44:20
  Speaker 1: himself in the most polite terms to the secretary and
• 2:44:22
  Speaker 1: the jew who he said had always been a messenger
• 2:44:25
  Speaker 1: of glad tidings, communicated his happiness to the company, and
• 2:44:29
  Speaker 1: this evening concluded the third day of their rejoicing. Next morning,
• 2:44:33
  Speaker 1: Don Diego went to visit the ambassador, accompanied by Joshua
• 2:44:37
  Speaker 1: and the secretary, while the physician repairing to the habitation
• 2:44:41
  Speaker 1: of fathom signified by Rinaldo's direction the resolution which had
• 2:44:45
  Speaker 1: been taken in his behalf, and the patient no sooner
• 2:44:48
  Speaker 1: heard his doom than lifting up his hands, he cried,
• 2:44:52
  Speaker 1: I am unworthy of such tenderness and benevolence, while Elinor
• 2:44:56
  Speaker 1: shed a flood of tears in silence, unable to give
• 2:44:59
  Speaker 1: utter to her grateful thought Melvo's bounty having so far
• 2:45:03
  Speaker 1: transcended her most sanguine hope. The Spaniard, having paid his
• 2:45:07
  Speaker 1: devoirs to his excellency, returned before dinner, and in the afternoon,
• 2:45:12
  Speaker 1: desiring a private conference with Seraphina, they retired into another apartment,
• 2:45:16
  Speaker 1: and he expressed himself to this effect, you have contracted
• 2:45:20
  Speaker 1: my dear child and habit of calling Madame Clement your mother,
• 2:45:23
  Speaker 1: and doubtless, by her maternal tenderness and regard, she hath
• 2:45:28
  Speaker 1: acquired a just title to the appellation. Yet I own
• 2:45:31
  Speaker 1: I would fain strengthen it by a legal claim. I
• 2:45:35
  Speaker 1: no sooner retrieved my daughter than I gave her away
• 2:45:37
  Speaker 1: to the most deserving youth that ever sighed with love.
• 2:45:40
  Speaker 1: Dot I rejoice in the gift which secured your happiness,
• 2:45:44
  Speaker 1: But I left myself in a solitary situation which even
• 2:45:47
  Speaker 1: the return of my good fortune cannot render easy and supportable.
• 2:45:51
  Speaker 1: When I revisit the Castle of Zealous, every well known
• 2:45:54
  Speaker 1: object will recall the memory of my Antonia, and I
• 2:45:57
  Speaker 1: shall want a companion to fill her place and to
• 2:45:59
  Speaker 1: simpathize with me in that sorrow which will be derived
• 2:46:02
  Speaker 1: from my remembrance. Who is there so worthy to succeed
• 2:46:06
  Speaker 1: your mother in the affection of Don Diego as she
• 2:46:08
  Speaker 1: who interests her love for Seraphina and resembles her so
• 2:46:12
  Speaker 1: strongly in every virtue of the sex. Similar attractions will
• 2:46:16
  Speaker 1: produce similar effects. My heart is already attached to that
• 2:46:20
  Speaker 1: good lady, and provided Seraphina shall approve of my choice,
• 2:46:24
  Speaker 1: I will lay myself in fortune at her feet. The
• 2:46:27
  Speaker 1: fair countess replied with an enchanting smile that before this
• 2:46:32
  Speaker 1: declaration she had with pleasure perceived the progress which Madame
• 2:46:35
  Speaker 1: Clement had made in his heart, and that she did
• 2:46:37
  Speaker 1: not believe there was a person upon earth better qualified
• 2:46:40
  Speaker 1: to repair the loss he had sustained. Though she foresaw
• 2:46:43
  Speaker 1: one obstacle to his happiness, which she was afraid would
• 2:46:47
  Speaker 1: not be easily surmounted. You mean answer the Castilian the
• 2:46:51
  Speaker 1: difference of religion, which I am resolved to remove by
• 2:46:54
  Speaker 1: adopting the Protestant faith. Though I am fully satisfied that
• 2:46:58
  Speaker 1: real goodness is of no particular parson suasion, and that
• 2:47:00
  Speaker 1: salvation cannot depend upon belief over which the will has
• 2:47:04
  Speaker 1: no influence. I invest you, therefore with the charge of
• 2:47:08
  Speaker 1: declaring my passion and proposal, and empower you to satisfy
• 2:47:12
  Speaker 1: her scruples with regard to the religion which I now profess,
• 2:47:15
  Speaker 1: and which I shall not openly relinquish until I shall
• 2:47:18
  Speaker 1: have secured in this country effects sufficient to screen me
• 2:47:21
  Speaker 1: from the ill consequences of my king's displeasure. Seraphina undertook
• 2:47:26
  Speaker 1: this office with pleasure because she had reason to think
• 2:47:28
  Speaker 1: his addresses would not be disagreeable to Madame Clement, and
• 2:47:31
  Speaker 1: that same night made the Count acquainted with the nature
• 2:47:34
  Speaker 1: of her commission. Nor was her expectation disappointed. The French lady,
• 2:47:40
  Speaker 1: with that frankness which is peculiar to virtue and good breeding,
• 2:47:43
  Speaker 1: confessed that Don Diego was not indifferent to her choice,
• 2:47:46
  Speaker 1: and did not hesitate in receiving him upon the footing
• 2:47:49
  Speaker 1: of a lover dot, as we have already dwelt circumstantially
• 2:47:53
  Speaker 1: on the passion of love, so as perhaps even to
• 2:47:56
  Speaker 1: have tired our readers, we shall not repeat the dialogue
• 2:47:59
  Speaker 1: that passed when the Spaniard was indulged with an opportunity
• 2:48:02
  Speaker 1: to explain his sentiments, Suffice it to observe that the
• 2:48:06
  Speaker 1: ladies days of coquetry were now over, and that she
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 1: was too wise to trifle with the time, which every
• 2:48:12
  Speaker 1: moment became more and more precious. It was agreed then
• 2:48:16
  Speaker 1: that Don Diego should settle his affairs in Spain and
• 2:48:19
  Speaker 1: return to England, in order to espouse Madame Clement, with
• 2:48:22
  Speaker 1: a view to fix his residence in this island, where
• 2:48:25
  Speaker 1: Rinaldo likewise proposed to enjoy the sweets of his fortune,
• 2:48:28
  Speaker 1: provided he could draw hither his interests and connections. Meanwhile,
• 2:48:33
  Speaker 1: having for some days enjoyed his bliss with all the
• 2:48:35
  Speaker 1: fullness of rapture amidst this small but agreeable society, he
• 2:48:39
  Speaker 1: shifted the scene and conducted his dear partner to a
• 2:48:42
  Speaker 1: ready furnished house in town, which, together with an occasional
• 2:48:45
  Speaker 1: equipage his friend Joshua had hired for the accommodation of
• 2:48:49
  Speaker 1: him and his father in law, who, during his stay
• 2:48:52
  Speaker 1: in England failed not to cultivate the mistress of his
• 2:48:55
  Speaker 1: heart with the most punctual assiduity. Hitherto, Seraphina had been
• 2:48:59
  Speaker 1: as a precious jewel locked up in a casket, which
• 2:49:02
  Speaker 1: the owner alone had an opportunity to contemplate. But now
• 2:49:06
  Speaker 1: the count, who was proud of such a prize, resolved
• 2:49:09
  Speaker 1: to let her shine forth to the admiration of the
• 2:49:12
  Speaker 1: whole world. With this view, he bespoke such ornaments as
• 2:49:16
  Speaker 1: befitted her quality, and while the Manchua makers were employed
• 2:49:19
  Speaker 1: in her service, made a tour among his former acquaintance
• 2:49:22
  Speaker 1: and discharged the obligations under which he lay to some
• 2:49:25
  Speaker 1: who had assisted him in his distress. He did not, however,
• 2:49:29
  Speaker 1: introduced them to his charming Seraphina, because not one of
• 2:49:33
  Speaker 1: them had formerly treated her with that delicacy of regard
• 2:49:35
  Speaker 1: which he thought her due, and some of them were
• 2:49:38
  Speaker 1: much mortified at their neglect when they saw what a
• 2:49:40
  Speaker 1: dazzling figure she made in a Beaumont. She was visited
• 2:49:44
  Speaker 1: by the Spanish and Imperial ambassadors, and divers other foreigners
• 2:49:48
  Speaker 1: of distinction to whom Melville had letters of recommendation. But
• 2:49:53
  Speaker 1: her first public appearance was in a box at the opera,
• 2:49:55
  Speaker 1: accompanied by Madame Clement, the Count and Don Diego. The
• 2:50:00
  Speaker 1: entertainment was already begun, so that her entrance had the
• 2:50:03
  Speaker 1: greater effect upon the audience, whose attention was soon detached
• 2:50:07
  Speaker 1: from the performance and riveted upon this amiable apparition, which
• 2:50:10
  Speaker 1: seemed to be some bright being of another world, dropped
• 2:50:13
  Speaker 1: from the clouds among them. Then did the spirit of
• 2:50:16
  Speaker 1: curiosity play its part. A thousand whispers circulated, as many
• 2:50:21
  Speaker 1: glasses were exalted to reconnoiter this box of foreigners, for
• 2:50:24
  Speaker 1: such they concluded them to be. From their appearance, every
• 2:50:28
  Speaker 1: male spectator acknowledged Seraphina to be the paragon of beauty,
• 2:50:32
  Speaker 1: and every female confessed that Melville was the model of
• 2:50:35
  Speaker 1: a fine gentleman. The charms of the young countess did
• 2:50:39
  Speaker 1: not escape the eye in approbation of royalty itself, And
• 2:50:42
  Speaker 1: when her rank was known from the information of the
• 2:50:44
  Speaker 1: ambassadors and other people of condition who were seen saluting
• 2:50:47
  Speaker 1: her at a distance that same evening, a thousand bumpers
• 2:50:50
  Speaker 1: were swallowed in honor of the Countess to Melville. The
• 2:50:54
  Speaker 1: fame of her beauty was immediately extended over this immense metropolis,
• 2:50:58
  Speaker 1: and different schemes were concerted for bringing her into life. These, however,
• 2:51:03
  Speaker 1: she resisted with unwearied obstinacy. Her happiness centered in Ronaldo
• 2:51:08
  Speaker 1: and the cultivation of a few friends. Within the shade
• 2:51:10
  Speaker 1: of domestic quiet. She did not even forget the concerns
• 2:51:14
  Speaker 1: of the wretched Fathom and his faithful Eleanor, who daily
• 2:51:17
  Speaker 1: enjoyed fresh instances of her humanity and care. When his
• 2:51:21
  Speaker 1: fever forsook him, he was supplied with nourishing food for
• 2:51:24
  Speaker 1: the recovery of his health, and as soon as he
• 2:51:27
  Speaker 1: found himself in a condition to travel, he gave notice
• 2:51:30
  Speaker 1: to his benefactor, who desired Joshua to settle with him
• 2:51:33
  Speaker 1: the manner in which he was to receive his allowance
• 2:51:35
  Speaker 1: and to pay the first half year's salary per advance.
• 2:51:39
  Speaker 1: This affair being adjusted and the place of his retreat signified,
• 2:51:43
  Speaker 1: the Jew told Eleanor that she might wait upon the
• 2:51:46
  Speaker 1: Countess before their departure, and she did not fail to
• 2:51:48
  Speaker 1: make use of this permission. After they had made the
• 2:51:52
  Speaker 1: necessary preparations for their journey and taken places in the
• 2:51:55
  Speaker 1: York stage coach, missus Fathom, clothing herself in decent apparel,
• 2:51:59
  Speaker 1: went to the house of count Melville, and was immediately
• 2:52:02
  Speaker 1: admitted to the presence of Serafina, who received her with
• 2:52:05
  Speaker 1: her usual complacency, enriched her with salutary advice, comforted her
• 2:52:10
  Speaker 1: with the hope of better things provided her conduct and
• 2:52:13
  Speaker 1: that of her husband should henceforth be found irreproachable, and
• 2:52:17
  Speaker 1: wishing her peace and happiness, presented her with a box
• 2:52:20
  Speaker 1: of linen and twenty guineas in a purse. Such excessive
• 2:52:24
  Speaker 1: goodness overpowered this sensible young woman to such a degree
• 2:52:27
  Speaker 1: that she stood before her in speechless awe and veneration,
• 2:52:30
  Speaker 1: and the Countess, in order to relieve her from the
• 2:52:33
  Speaker 1: confusion under which she suffered, quitted the room, leaving her
• 2:52:36
  Speaker 1: to the care of her woman. It was not long, however,
• 2:52:40
  Speaker 1: before her gratitude broke out in loud exclamations and a
• 2:52:43
  Speaker 1: violent passion of tears, which all her efforts could not
• 2:52:47
  Speaker 1: for a while overcome. By this time the coach was
• 2:52:50
  Speaker 1: brought up to the gate for the reception of Sarafina,
• 2:52:53
  Speaker 1: who took an airing every day at the same hour,
• 2:52:55
  Speaker 1: when Rinaldo leading her to the vehicle, beheld a man
• 2:52:59
  Speaker 1: plainly dressed stamp within the court, with his head and
• 2:53:01
  Speaker 1: body bent towards the earth, so that his countenance could
• 2:53:04
  Speaker 1: not be perceived. Melville, who supposed him to be some
• 2:53:08
  Speaker 1: unfortunate man come to implore his charity, turned towards him
• 2:53:12
  Speaker 1: and asked, with a humane accent, if he wanted to
• 2:53:14
  Speaker 1: speak with any person in the house. To this interrogation,
• 2:53:18
  Speaker 1: the stranger replied, without lifting up his head, overwhelmed as
• 2:53:22
  Speaker 1: I am with Count Melville's generosity together with the consciousness
• 2:53:25
  Speaker 1: of my own unworthiness, it'll becomes a wretch like me
• 2:53:28
  Speaker 1: to importune him for further favor. Yet I could not
• 2:53:31
  Speaker 1: bear the thought of withdrawing, perhaps forever, from the presence
• 2:53:35
  Speaker 1: of my benefactor, without soliciting his permission to see his
• 2:53:38
  Speaker 1: face in mercy, to acknowledge my atrocious crimes, to hear
• 2:53:42
  Speaker 1: my pardon confirmed by his voice and that of his
• 2:53:44
  Speaker 1: accomplished countess, who might dare not even at a distance behold,
• 2:53:48
  Speaker 1: and to express my fervent wish for their prosperity. Melville,
• 2:53:52
  Speaker 1: whose heart was but too tender, could not hear this
• 2:53:55
  Speaker 1: address without emotion. He recognized the companion of his infancy
• 2:53:59
  Speaker 1: in you. He remembered the happy scenes he had enjoyed
• 2:54:02
  Speaker 1: with Fathom, whose voice had always such an effect upon
• 2:54:05
  Speaker 1: his ear as to excite the ideas of friendship and esteem,
• 2:54:09
  Speaker 1: and he was disturbed by this unexpected meeting, which also
• 2:54:13
  Speaker 1: discomposed the beauteous Seraphina Rinaldo. Having paused a little, it
• 2:54:18
  Speaker 1: is with pain, said he I recollect anything to the
• 2:54:21
  Speaker 1: prejudice of Fathom, whose future behavior will I hope erased
• 2:54:25
  Speaker 1: the memory of his offenses, and justify what other steps
• 2:54:28
  Speaker 1: I may take in his favor. Meanwhile, I heartily forgive
• 2:54:32
  Speaker 1: what is past, and in token of my sincerity, present
• 2:54:36
  Speaker 1: my hand, which our adventurer bathed with his tears. The countess,
• 2:54:40
  Speaker 1: whose mind was in unison with her husband, repeated her
• 2:54:43
  Speaker 1: assurances of pardon and protection, at which the penitent rejoiced
• 2:54:47
  Speaker 1: in silence, while he raised his head and took a
• 2:54:49
  Speaker 1: parting view of those charms which had formerly enslaved his heart.
• 2:54:53
  Speaker 1: Having thus obeyed the dictates of his duty and inclination,
• 2:54:57
  Speaker 1: he next morning embarked in the stage coach with his
• 2:54:59
  Speaker 1: faith Eleanor, and in six days arrived at the place
• 2:55:02
  Speaker 1: of his retreat, which he found extremely well adapted to
• 2:55:05
  Speaker 1: the circumstances of his mind and fortune. For all his
• 2:55:09
  Speaker 1: vice and ambition was now quite mortified within him, and
• 2:55:12
  Speaker 1: his whole attention, engrossed in atoning for his former crimes
• 2:55:16
  Speaker 1: by a sober and penitent life, by which alone he
• 2:55:18
  Speaker 1: could deserve the uncommon generosity of his patrons. While he
• 2:55:22
  Speaker 1: thus accommodated himself to his new system, Rinaldo received letters
• 2:55:26
  Speaker 1: of congratulation from his sister, who, with the Major, had
• 2:55:29
  Speaker 1: come to Brussels in order to meet her brother in Seraphina.
• 2:55:33
  Speaker 1: According to his proposal, this intimation being communicated to Don Diego,
• 2:55:38
  Speaker 1: he resolved to accompany them to Flanders on his way
• 2:55:41
  Speaker 1: to Spain. Preparations were made for their departure. The clergyman
• 2:55:45
  Speaker 1: and physician were honored with valuable marks of friendship and
• 2:55:48
  Speaker 1: esteem from the Countess, Rinaldo and the Castilian, who were
• 2:55:52
  Speaker 1: convoyed to deal by Madame Clement, to whom at parting,
• 2:55:55
  Speaker 1: Don Diego presented a diamond ring as a pledge of
• 2:55:58
  Speaker 1: his inviolable love. Here the travelers hired a vessel for Ostand,
• 2:56:03
  Speaker 1: which they reached in a few hours. In two days
• 2:56:06
  Speaker 1: more they arrived at Brussels, where Missus Ferrell and her
• 2:56:08
  Speaker 1: husband were struck with admiration at the surprising beauty and
• 2:56:11
  Speaker 1: accomplishment of their sister in law, whom they caressed with
• 2:56:14
  Speaker 1: equal tenderness and joy dot in a word, all parties
• 2:56:19
  Speaker 1: were as happy as good fortune could make them, and
• 2:56:21
  Speaker 1: Don Diego set out for Spain, after they had agreed
• 2:56:24
  Speaker 1: to reside in the Low Countries till his return.