The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 302: what you’re looking at

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COUNT AND COUNTESS OF TOLEDO — 285 implacable enemy, at whose hands everything was to be dreaded; and hence the grief with which he was over- whelmed on reading the intelligence in the newspapers. Such was the narrative of explanations which the Count de Toledo gave Juliana, and she was naturally much chagrined at a circumstance which threatened to render her husband a proscribed exile from his country. Besides, the count had represented his Catalan mansion and his surrounding estates in such glowing colours that the bride was naturally desirous to be introduced to the palatial residence and the wide do- mains of which she had become the mistress, and therefore her disappointment and her affliction were all the more bitter. But there was something consolatory in the statements which her husband, on calmer deliberation, was enabled to make. He fortunately had still a very considerable supply of ready money at his command. He knew also that the intendant of his domains had ample funds in hand, and was a strictly honourable man, so that it would only be. needful to com- municate with him in order to obtain the prompt handing over of these immediately available resources. Juliana was thus enabled to take a fairer view of their prospects than at the first glance they seemed to present, and as the journey was continued southward, she deliberated with her husband upon the course to be adopted. He suggested that they should push on to the very verge of the Pyrenees, and that their honeymoon should be passed in some quiet retreat within the French frontier, whence they might not only watch the progress of affairs in Spain, but the count might also communicate with his intendant in Catalonia. The proposition was agreeable to Juliana, who, if compelled to remain in France at all, much preferred a comparative se- clusion, where there was all the less probability of her hus- band hearing anything to her disadvantage; for, as the reader may suppose, she had taken good care not to inform him that she had already been the mistress of two paramours, and had likewise been a mother. They reached the little village alluded to in the opening of this chapter. The pic- turesque cottage, with its attached grounds, at once ap- peared to them a suitable residence, and as the notary to whom it belonged would not let it for a shorter term than a. year, a man of the count’s resources was not likely to hesitate at the arrangement. On the contrary, as he expressed him- CONNIE OOOkKS (FO)