However, before the plan could be executed, the Cavalier discovered that the estates which He believed Agnes to possess in Hispaniola, in reality belonged to me.

This intelligence made him change his intention; He disappeared on the day that the elopement was to have taken place, and Agnes, in despair at his perfidy and meanness, had resolved upon seclusion in a Convent.
She added, that as this adventurer had given himself out to be a Friend of mine, She wished to know whether I had any knowledge of him.

I replied in the negative.

I had then very little idea, that Alphonso d'Alvarada and the Marquis de las Cisternas were one and the same person: The description given me of the first by no means tallied with what I knew of the latter.' 'In this I easily recognize Donna Rodolpha's perfidious character.
Every word of this account is stamped with marks of her malice, of her falsehood, of her talents for misrepresenting those whom She wishes to injure.

Forgive me, Medina, for speaking so freely of your Relation.
The mischief which She has done me authorises my resentment, and when you have heard my story, you will be convinced that my expressions have not been too severe.' He then began his narrative in the following manner.
HISTORY OF DON RAYMOND, MARQUIS DE LAS CISTERNAS Long experience, my dear Lorenzo, has convinced me how generous is your nature: I waited not for your declaration of ignorance respecting your Sister's adventures to suppose that they had been purposely concealed from you.