“But,” he said, “the count’s generosity is too overwhelming; Valentine will be satisfied with my humble fortune. Where is the count, friend? Lead me to him.”
Jacopo pointed towards the horizon.
“What do you mean?” asked Valentine. “Where is the count?—where is Haydée?”
“Look!” said Jacopo.
The eyes of both were fixed upon the spot indicated by the sailor, and on the blue line separating the sky from the Mediterranean Sea, they perceived a large white sail.
“Gone,” said Morrel; “gone!—adieu, my friend—adieu, my father!”
“Gone,” murmured Valentine; “adieu, my sweet Haydée—adieu, my sister!”
“Who can say whether we shall ever see them again?” said Morrel with tearful eyes.
“Darling,” replied Valentine, “has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words:
“‘Wait and hope (Fac et spera)!’”
FOOTNOTES:
1 (return)
[ “The wicked are great drinkers of water; As the flood proved once for all.”]
2 (return)
[ $2,600,000 in 1894.]
3 (return)
[ Knocked on the head.]
4 (return)
[ Beheaded.]
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[ Scott, of course: “The son of an ill-fated sire, and the father of a yet more unfortunate family, bore in his looks that cast of inauspicious melancholy by which the physiognomists of that time pretended to distinguish those who were predestined to a violent and unhappy death.”—The Abbot, ch. xxii.]
6 (return)
[ Guillotine.]
7 (return)
[ Dr. Guillotin got the idea of his famous machine from witnessing an execution in Italy.]
8 (return)
[ Brucea ferruginea.]
9 (return)
[ ‘Money and sanctity, Each in a moiety.’]
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[ Elisabeth de Rossan, Marquise de Ganges, was one of the famous women of the court of Louis XIV. where she was known as “La Belle Provençale.” She was the widow of the Marquis de Castellane when she married de Ganges, and having the misfortune to excite the enmity of her new brothers-in-law, was forced by them to take poison; and they finished her off with pistol and dagger.—Ed.]
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[ Magistrate and orator of great eloquence—chancellor of France under Louis XV.]
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[ Jacques-Louis David, a famous French painter (1748-1825).]
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[ Ali Pasha, “The Lion,” was born at Tepelini, an Albanian village at the foot of the Klissoura Mountains, in 1741. By diplomacy and success in arms he became almost supreme ruler of Albania, Epirus, and adjacent territory. Having aroused the enmity of the Sultan, he was proscribed and put to death by treachery in 1822, at the age of eighty.—Ed.]
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[ Greek militiamen in the war for independence.—Ed.]
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