The arts of his father have long been known to thee; and thou must have seen, by the secresy of his own advances, that he distrusts their decision.

The state will have a care to dispose of thee as befitteth thy hopes.

Thou art sought of many, and those who guard thy fortune only await the proposals which best become thy birth." "Proposals that become my birth ?" "Suitable in years, condition, expectations, and character." "Am I to regard Don Camillo Monforte as one beneath me ?" The monk again interposed.
"This interview must end," he said.

"The eyes drawn upon us by your indiscreet music, are now turned on other objects, Signore, and you must break your faith, or depart." "Alone, father ?" "Is the Donna Violetta to quit the roof of her father with as little warning as an unfavored dependant ?" "Nay, Signor Monforte, you could not, in reason, have expected more, in this interview, than the hope of some future termination to your suit--- some pledge--" "And that pledge ?" The eye of Violetta turned from her governess to her lover, from her lover to the monk, and from the latter to the floor.
"Is thine, Camillo." A common cry escaped the Carmelite and the governess.
"Thy mercy, excellent friends," continued the blushing but decided Violetta.

"If I have encouraged Don Camillo, in a manner that thy counsels and maiden modesty would reprove, reflect that had he hesitated to cast himself into the Giudecca, I should have wanted the power to confer this trifling grace.