Emanuel, which he had warily transmitted through a neutral vessel to
Messina, and thence to Brazil: the perusal of them caused a conflict in
the heart of Caspar. He would have exulted had he not seen the friend
and master whom he idolized, a prey to extreme grief.
Sebastian was indeed suffering in idea, all the pangs of parting from an
only and beloved child; and while he fancied the tears and cries of her
yet dearer mother, his hardly-earned philosophy deserted him at once.
It was necessary that Caspar should now forget that he was his King, and
think of him merely as a man struck and enfeebled by sorrow, he
ventured to enter fully on the important inducements to the separation
they dreaded; and explaining every motive more distinctly than De Castro
could take time to do, he succeeded in recalling Sebastian to a sense of
his daughter’s interest, and his people’s claims.
After a long discussion, the sad father exhorted Gaspar to a temporary
silence on the subject of their discourse, and requesting to be left
alone, shut himself into his apartment to ruminate on the arguments to
which he had been listening.
END OF THE THIRD VOLUME.
J. M‘CREERY, Printer,
Black-Horse-Court, Fleet-street, London.