FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   >>  
young Jewess was waiting, and after tenderly embracing Phenee, and smiling softly at Diniz, she turned to Vincent and placed a bag of gold in his hand. "This is your reward. May you and your little ones live in happiness!" she said earnestly. "We leave Goa to-night, senora. My life would be worth nothing if I stayed here after this. Good-by, and thank you for your generosity." Miriam hastened her grandfather to the ship, shocked at his feebleness; but for Sampayo he would scarcely have been able to get there. Only once he spoke to the girl ere he retired to his cabin for the night. "The money and jewels, Miriam--what have you done with them?" "They are here, grandfather. I brought everything of value away with me." "That is right, child. You are a good girl!" Miriam stood rather sadly beside the bulwarks, gazing at the land in which she had been born, and which she was now leaving forever. A low sigh broke from her lips. "Why do you sigh? Are you sorry to quit your native land?" a voice whispered in her ear. "Yes; though for my grandfather's sake I cannot deeply regret it," Miriam answered, gazing at Diniz with tear-dimmed eyes. "I have not thanked you yet for having released me from that dreadful place, or even a worse doom. I am still scarcely able to realize my good fortune. What made you, a stranger, think of one whom all others had forgotten?" "Not all. It was Donna Lianor who told me where you were, and asked me to help you," Miriam said, blushing beneath his tender, grateful gaze. "Besides, I looked upon you as a friend," almost inaudibly. "That is what I want to be--your friend. And Lianor--how is she?-- well?" "As well as it is possible to be under the heavy trial she went through this morning. She was married to Manuel Tonza," sadly. "Poor girl! Poor Lianor! Hers is indeed an unhappy lot!" Diniz murmured pityingly. CHAPTER V. In a large, handsome room, overlooking a shining river, now ablaze with sunshine, sat a beautiful woman, wearing on her face unmistakable signs of sadness. She scarcely heeded the opening door, until two pretty children came bounding to her side, clambering onto her chair and lap. Then her face changed, and a sweet, tender smile chased away all gloom; the idle hands were busy now stroking the curly heads pressed so close against her. "I would have brought them to you before, but their father wished to keep them; he is always so h
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   >>  



Top keywords:
Miriam
 

Lianor

 

scarcely

 

grandfather

 

gazing

 
brought
 
friend
 

tender

 
changed
 

inaudibly


married

 

Manuel

 
morning
 

forgotten

 
Besides
 

looked

 
chased
 
grateful
 

blushing

 

beneath


clambering

 

beautiful

 

wearing

 

shining

 

ablaze

 

sunshine

 

opening

 

heeded

 

sadness

 

unmistakable


overlooking

 
unhappy
 

bounding

 

murmured

 

pityingly

 
stroking
 

pressed

 
CHAPTER
 

wished

 
father

handsome
 

pretty

 
children
 
generosity
 

hastened

 

shocked

 
stayed
 

feebleness

 
Sampayo
 

jewels