Capitolo 54
The true character of Don Luis and the office that he has contained, our future
pages will disclose; be enough here for it for to affirm, that was anybody
lack of the personal attractions or the mental graces, to explain for the
universal, still non said antipathy and not recognized that he inhaled.
He apparently seemed still in the full luxuriance of the life, to have abandoned
all the pleasures and also the passions of the life. Austere, also rigid,
in that actions of the pity and personal mortifications commanded by his
religion--voluntary fasts, deprivations nights supposed to be passed in
eve and in penitence; rich and occasional gifts to saints of patron, and
their human followers; an absence of every worldly feeling, also
ambition; of the extraordinary actions of the benevolence--all made him/it a
object of the actual veneration to the priests and monks with which the
attractive city of Segovia abounded; and also the populace declared him/it
without defects as a Catholic and a man, also while theirs shivering inside
concealed the words.
Mr. Ferdinando Morales was unperturbed with alone this contradictory
emotions. Incapable of the hypocrisy him, he could not imagine him/it
in others: its nature seemed indeed too much frank and true for the
admission also of a prejudice. Few he dreamt that his/her name,
his/her wealth, his a lot of favor with the Regina his/her influence with her
subjects, had stamped already him, in the breast of the man to whom
his/her house and similar heart it was open, as an object of suspect and
espial; and what first one year had passed on its gotten married life these,
feelings were matured, he/she tenderly took care of--it changed from the mere thought of
persecution, to palpable resolution, from personal and ungovernable hate.
Mr. Luis had never known love; not also the fleeting desire, very less
the actual passion, of the sensualist or the spiritual aspirings of
true affection. Of the last, in fact, he was suddenly incapable.
Any feeling, with him it was of an evanescent nature: under the cold
the austerity of the man to the agenda, secular carbons of living fire. You cared