_Dom._ Hold your peace; are you growing malapert? will you force me to
make use of my authority? your wife's a well disposed and a virtuous
lady; I say it, _In verbo sacerdotis._
_Elv._ I know not what to do, father; I find myself in a most
desperate condition; and so is the colonel, for love of me.
_Dom._ The colonel, say you! I wish it be not the same young gentleman
I know. 'Tis a gallant young man, I must confess, worthy of any lady's
love in Christendom,--in a lawful way, I mean: of such a charming
behaviour, so bewitching to a woman's eye, and, furthermore, so
charitably given; by all good tokens, this must be my colonel
Hernando.
_Elv._ Ay, and my colonel too, father:--I am overjoyed!--and are you
then acquainted with him?
_Dom._ Acquainted with him! why, he haunts me up and down; and, I am
afraid, it is for love of you; for he pressed a letter upon me, within
this hour, to deliver to you. I confess I received it, lest he should
send it by some other; but with full resolution never to put it into
your hands.
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