Thus impressed, both father and daughter awaited with impatience the following day, which, beyond the possibility of doubt, was to bring Gomez Arias to the city.
CHAPTER V.
Sterling. True, True; and since you only transfer from one girl to another, it is no more than transferring so much stock, you know.
Sir John. The very thing.
Sterling. Odso! I had quite forgot. We are reckoning without our host here.
Clandestine Marriage.
"What is to be the wonder now?" asked Gomez Arias, as he observed his valet and confidant, Roque, approaching, with an unusual expression of gravity upon his countenance, such indeed as was seldom discernible in the features of the merry buffoon.
"What is it you want?"
"I wish to leave your service, Señor."
"Leave my service! Surely, Roque, you are not tired of so indulgent a master?"