8 The ADVENTURES of
Jiying you had any (hare in the booty; but you (han’t be fo cafily quit I affure you; your being an accomplice of Don Raphael is a fufficient rcafon for obliging you to give an account of your pad life. You have, doubt- Icls, a great many things on your confciencc; and therefore you (hall go to prifon (if you pleafe) and make a general confeflion. I will carry this old gentlewoman thither alfo (added he); for I imagine (he i knows a great many curious (lories, which the corre- gidor will not be forry to hear.”
At thefc words, the two women put every thing in practice to melt us; filling the chamber with cries, groans, and lamentations : while the old woman on her knees (fometimes before the Alguazil, and fome- times before his attendants) endeavoured to move their companion; Camilla implored me in the moll affecting manner, to fave her from the hands of ju(ticc. Upon which I pretended to relent, faying to the fon of Nunncz, “ Mr. Officer, fmee I have got my diamond I am fatisfied : I don’t defirc to give this poor woman any further trouble ; and would not even feek the death of a finner.” “ For (hame! (faid he) a man of your humanity would make a bad trooper ; but I mull acquit myfelf of my commiflion, by which I am cxprcfsly ordered to apprehend thefc infanta’s; for the conegidor wants to make an example of them.”
41 For heaven’s fake! (I replied) have lomc regard to entreaty, and abate a little of your feverity, in confi- dcration of the prefent which ihefe ladies will offer.”
44 Oh! that’s another affair (faid he) that is what wc call a figure of rhetoric well placed.—Come, let us fee what they have got to give me ?” “ I have (faid
Camilla) a pearl necklace, and car-rings of a confi- derablc value.” Here (he was interrupted with,
“ Yes, but if they come from the Philippine ides,
I’ll have none of them.” “ You may take them upon my word, I’ll warrant them genuine,” faid (he, at the fame time defiring the old woman to bring a little box, out of which ffie took the necklace and earrings,