“Yes, and from outraged religion, too.”
“Certainly, certainly. That is the chief source of my grief, and I should have mentioned it if I had not feared you were not so strongly attached to religion as myself.”
“Nobody, God be praised! could be more strongly attached to religion than I, and nothing can ever unloose the ties which bind me to it.”
“You will be grieved, then, to hear that I am destined to suffer eternal punishment, for I must and will be avenged.”
“Not so, madam, perish the thought, as I could not become your accomplice in such a design, and if you will not abandon it at least say nothing to me on the subject. I will promise you to tell him nothing, although as he lives with me the sacred laws of hospitality oblige me to give him due warning.”
“I thought he lived with the Lambertini”
“He left her yesterday. The connection between them was a criminal one, and I have drawn him back from the brink of the precipice.”
“You don’t mean to say so!”
“Yes, upon my word of honour.”
“You astonish one. This is very edifying. I don’t wish the young man’s death, but you must confess he owes me some reparation.”