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it fucceeded : but in all appearance, > it will end ilf j and it is my.advice, that in order to prevent explanations, we immediately betake ourfelves to our heils, with the feather which we have plucked from the honed-tpa-n^s wing.
y Mr. Aloraltz (anfwcred I to this propofal) you yield to difficulties, I find, very foon, and don’t do a great deal of honour to Don Matthias de CordeJ, and the, oilier cavaliers with whom you lived at Toledo : one who has ferved his apprenticefhip under fuch able mahers, ought not to be cafily alarmed. As for me, who intend to,walk in the fteps of thefe heroes, and prove myfelf a w orthy pupil,I will bear up againft: the obflatle that terrifies you, and make my litmolt effort to furmount ir.” “ If you accomplifh that, (faid my companion) I will perler ycu to all the great men in Plutarch.”
Juft as Moralez had done fpeaking, Jerome de Moyaday coming in, faid to me, “ You fhall he my fon in daw this very evening. Your fervant (I fu j- . pofe) hat -told y ou what happened. What do you think of the impudence of the rogue, who would have made me believe that he was the fon of my mother’s correfpondenr?” Signioi (anfwcrcd I, in a melancholy tone, and with themoft ingenuous air I could afteft), I find I an* not qualified to carry on deceit; I mlift fincerdy own that I am not the fon-of Juan Velez de Mcnbrilla.” “ What do I hear ! (cried the old man, interrupting me with equal precipitation and furprize) how ! you not the young man to w horn my brother”.—“ Pray fir (faid I, interrupting him in my turn) be fo good as to hear me to an end, I have loved your daughter thefe eight days, during which my paffion has detained meat Merida ; and vefteidjty after coming to your affiftance, I was about to demand her in marriage, when you ftopt m) mouth, by giving me to underftand, that ftie was deftined for another. You told me that vour btothrr, in his laft moments, conjured you lo bellow her upon Pcdjo de