It was heavy and I knew it well; the padrona was in the habit of keeping her gold coin in it.

At Easter the whole city learned that Don Luis d'Avila had eloped with the beautiful Anna Van Hoogstraten, after killing her betrothed bridegroom in a duel on Maundy-Thursday at Hals on his way to Brussels--scarcely twenty-four hours before the wedding.
"I shall never forget how Junker Van Hoogstraten raged.

The padrona refused to see him and pretended to be ill, but she was as well as only she could be during these last few years." "And do you know how to interpret your mistress's mysterious conduct ?" asked Wilhelm.
"Yes sir; her reasons are perfectly evident.

But I must hasten, it is growing late; besides I cannot tell you minute particulars, for I was myself a child when the event happened, though Susanna has told me many things that would probably be worth relating.

Her excellenza's mother was a Chevreaux, and my mistress spent the best years of her life with her mother's sister, who during the winter lived in Paris.