Long ago her penetrating eye had probed the mask of dissimulation which concealed, like the "silver veil" of Mokanna, a great deformity: how much greater because, alas! a moral one.
Father Mazzolin inquired, with apparent interest, the cause of contention.

The Don gave a detailed account, and wound up by applying to him for support, in favor of Nevarro.

The look of sorrowful astonishment with which he listened, compelled Inez to fix her large Spanish eyes on the ground, lest he should perceive the smile which lurked in their corners, and half played round her lip.
He rebuked her gently, and spoke briefly of the evils which would result, if she persisted in her wilful and ungrateful course.

Inez listened with a meekness which surprised both parent and Padre; and when the latter rose to go, approached, and, in a low tone, requested him to meet her, that day week, in the confessional.
Woman's heart is everywhere the same, and in the solitude of her own apartment, Inez's softer feelings found full vent.

She sat with her face in her hands, one long deep; sigh, which struggled up, telling of the secret pain that was withering her joys and clouding her future.
Suddenly she started up, and passionately exclaimed, "It is hard that _his_ love should be wasted, on one whose heart is as cold and stony as this wall;" and she struck it impatiently.
Then drawing forth the glove, which on Manuel's entrance had been so hastily secreted, she pressed it repeatedly to her lips, returned it to its hiding-place, and sought her couch..