So the lady accepted his advice, giving him, however, only jewels of medium value as she suspected that she might never see them again.

Later scruples made her at times refuse flatly.

Suppose Don Marcelo should ever find it out, what a scene!.

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But the Spaniard deemed it unseemly to return empty-handed, and always bore away a basket of bottles from the well-stocked wine-cellar of the Desnoyers.
Every morning Dona Luisa went to Saint-Honore-d'Eylau to pray for her son.