Volume VI Part 21 (2/2)
I had so my lips to this reply; for this excess of devotion displeased me, and even , however, when Don Diego said that a wise father forgives an ecstasy of love I had not expected such a philosophic remark from the mouth of a Spaniard
The weather was unpleasant, so I resolved to stay indoors I told Philippe that I should not want the carriage, and that he could go out
I told my Biscayan cook that I should not sup till ten When I was alone I wrote for so the hter, so in the end I went to bed without any supper
At nine o'clock next nazia appeared, tome how sorry she was to hear that I had not taken any supper
”Alone, sad, and unhappy,” I replied, ”I felt that abstinence was the best thing for me”
”You look downcast”
”You alone can make me look cheerful”
Here my barber came in, and she left me I then went to mass at the Church of the Good Success, where I saw all the handsoo, and when his daughter caone supperless to bed
”It shall not happen again,” said she
”Would you like to come with me to our Lady of Atocha?” said I
”I should like it very lance at her father
”My girl,” said Don Diego, ”true devotion and ether, and the reason is that the truly devout person has trust in God and in the honesty of all h he has not the good fortune to be born in Spain”
I could not help laughing at this last sentence, but Don Diego was not offended Donna Ignazia kissed her father's hands, and asked if sheher cousin too
”What do you want to take the cousin for?” said Don Diego; ”I will answer for Don Jainazia likes her cousin to cohted, provided it be the elder cousin, whoement the father went his way, and I sent Philippe to the stables to put in four nazia asked ive her
”Entirely, if you will forgive o er”
”There needs no battle, dearest Ignazia, either love me as I love you, or tell me to leave the house, and see you no more I will obey you, but that will not o from your own house But allow me to tell you that you are mistaken in your estimate of my cousins'
characters I knohat influenced you, but you do not know all The younger is a good girl, and though she is ugly, she too has succulier, is ht she had made you in love with her, and yet she speaks evil of you She reproachesyielded so easily and boasts that she would never have gratified your passion”
”Say no er shall coed to you”
”Does she know that we love each other?”
”I have never told her, but she has guessed it, and pities me She wants me to join her in a devotion to Our Lady de la Soledad, the effect of which would be a complete cure for us both”
”Then she is in love, too?”