Let us speak like men, without exclamations and tears.

Look at me, I am calm, but do not think for that it is less certain that I shall go to-day if you do not grant me what I pray." "But--and she?
Where is she that you plead so earnestly for her ?" said Esteban.

"Have you seen her and spoken to her?
Is she in Toledo?
Have you with the insolence of your unbelief even brought her into the Cathedral ?" Gabriel, seeing him tearful and broken by his threat of leaving, thought the decisive moment had arrived, and opening the door of Sagrario's room he called: "Come out, child, ask your father's pardon." He looked astounded, then he fixed his eyes on Gabriel as though he could not guess who that woman was.

What joke had his brother prepared?
With a brutal impulse he tore the woman's hands from her face, looking at her earnestly; even so he did not recognise her.

In the midst of a painful silence he stood a long while looking at her.