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Pascal Bruno [by A. Dumas] ed. by T. Hook
Pascal Bruno ed by T Hook - by A. Dumas Author:Alexandre Dumas Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Pascal was right in his conjectures, as to the premature celebration of the nuptials. The countess, not without reason, as we have seen, apprehen... more »ding some desperate attempt on the part of Bruno, accelerated the marriage of Teresa, three days; but, alas, without telling her that Bruno had been in Palermo, and that he still loved her devotedly, and that for her sake he had overcome his aversion from entering theservice of the prince, or indeed mentioning to her, that she had seen and conversed with him. Teresa, therefore, wholly unconscious of the deep interest which her first lover still retained for her; unaware of the sacrifice which he was ready to make for her, and implicitly confiding in the mistress, who, with all her sins upon her head, had taught her to love her, offered no opposition to the new arrangement ; and as Gaetano and herself, from feelings of peculiar piety and devotion, desired to be married at the chapel of St. Rosalia, the patroness of Palermo, the countess, too anxious to have the affair concluded as speedily as possible, consented to the arrangement, and there accordingly they were married. In England, a wedding is an April-like ceremony, an affair of mingled smiles and tears, in which the latter generallypredominate. There were no tears shed at Teresa's nuptials, but still there hung over the brightness of her future prospects in the service of the countess, a wild dark cloud, which seemed to take the form of her loved, lost Pascal; nor could she dispel the vision which she dreaded to look on. The ceremony, however, was performed, and after its conclusion the wedding party descended to Palermo, where carriages were in waiting, to convey the company to the village ofCarini,from which "tenacres of territory," theprince derived his title. Th...« less