"Say but there is time, and every other difficulty shall be smoothed." "There is full time: the execution is not till the second day after to-morrow.

Nay, my child," he added, observing her look of doubting bewilderment, "suffering makes the hours seem longer than they are.
Fear not for time, but counsel me whom to send.

Who amongst these poor ignorant rustics will ever reach the King--or, failing him, the Chief Hermano--and make his tale so sufficiently clear as to release the prisoner, and send messengers here with the necessary speed to take down this man's confession?
He cannot linger two days more.

Would that I could go myself; but I can leave neither him nor thee." "And it needs not," was the firm reply.

"Father, I myself will do thy errand.