My mistress returned to Holland.

Her father challenged the marquis, but no blood was spilled in the duel, and Monsieur d'Avennes led a happy wedded life with Hortense de Chevreaux.
Her son was the signorina's hapless lover.

Do you understand, Herr Wilhelm?
She had nursed and fostered the old grudge for half a life time; for its sake she had sacrificed her own kinswoman to Don Luis, but in return she repaid by the death of the only son of a hated mother, the sorrow she had suffered for years on her account." The musician had clenched the handkerchief, with which he had wiped the perspiration from his brow, closely in his hand, and asked: "What more have you heard of Anna ?" "Very little," replied Belotti.

"Her father has torn her from his heart, and calls Henrica his only daughter.

Happiness abandons those who are burdened by a father's curse, and she certainly did not find it.