"Will that content you, lady?" he pleaded, handing it to her.
"How shall this scrawl content me?"
"It is a bond I shall redeem as soon as Heaven will permit."
Thereafter she fell to weeping, and he to protesting, until Frey
Miguel urged him to depart, as it grew late. And then she forgot
her own grief, and became all solicitude for him, until naught
would content her but she must empty into his hands her little
store of treasure--a hundred ducats and such jewels as she
possessed, including a gold watch set with diamonds and a ring
bearing a cameo portrait of King Philip, and last of all a
portrait of herself, of the size of a playing-card.
At last, as ten was striking, he was hurried away. Frey Miguel
had gone on his knees to him, and kissed his hand, what time he
had passionately urged him not to linger; and then Sebastian had
done the same by the Princess both weeping now. At last he was
gone, and on the arm of Dona Maria de Grado the forlorn Anne
staggered back to her cell to weep and pray.
In the days that followed she moved, pale and listless, oppressed
by her sense of loss and desolation, a desolation which at last
she sought to mitigate by writing to him to Valladolid, whither
he had repaired.
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