He found several waiting for him; but that which He sought was not amongst them.

Leonella had found it impossible to write that evening.

However, her impatience to secure Don Christoval's heart, on which She flattered herself with having made no slight impression, permitted her not to pass another day without informing him where She was to be found.

On her return from the Capuchin Church, She had related to her Sister with exultation how attentive an handsome Cavalier had been to her; as also how his Companion had undertaken to plead Antonia's cause with the Marquis de las Cisternas.

Elvira received this intelligence with sensations very different from those with which it was communicated.