But her ingenuity was endless." Salve felt a shudder run through him, and something in his face told the other that he had better not indulge his fancy any further; and he hastened, therefore, to add half in joke and half by way of consolation-- "Poor Antonio Varez will pay for her having been obliged to marry him, never fear.

Yes, she is rich and happy," he concluded with a sigh, as if he envied her; and the subject dropped..