"Goodnight, my child." "Goodnight, sweet child." "The balcony is still open!" "What anguish!" "Doesn't your affection give you words?" "Why are you so sad?" "Father... my lord..." "The quiet country air once soothed your heart." "You have fled here to escape the unworthy foreigner." "Leave the future to me." "Confide in your father, who loves you so." "Ah, father!" "What troubles you?" "Do not weep." "Oh, my remorse!" "I leave you now." "Ah, my father!" "God bless you." "Goodnight." "Goodnight!" "I feared he would stay until tomorrow!" "I' ll open the balcony window again." "All's ready." "Let us go." "Can so loving a father oppose my wishes so strongly?" "No, no, I cannot decide." "What are you saying?" "His words were like daggers in my heart." "Had he not gone out, I should have confessed all..." "And then tomorrow Don Alvaro would lie in his own blood, or else be imprisoned in Seville, and then, perhaps, hanged." "Silence!" "And all this because he loves one who doesn't care." "I not love him?" "You know well l love him..." "My country, my family, my father..." "Am I not leaving all for him?" "Ah, my misfortunes are too great to bear!" "An orphan and a wanderer, far from my native land," "a pitiless fate drives me on, to a foreign shore." "Tortured by fearful dreams, broken with remorse, this poor one's heart" "is condemned to eternal weeping." "I leave thee, alas, in tears, sweet homeland!" "Farewell." "Alas, so great a sorrow has no end!" "Farewell." "If you help me, milady, we can leave sooner." "And if he doesn't come?" "It's late." "It's past midnight." "Ah, no, he will not come!" "What's that?" "The sound of horses' hooves!" "lt is he!" "l knew he would not fail!" "Heaven!" "Ah, forever, now, my angel, heaven has Joined us." "As I hold you in my arms, heaven itself reJoices with me." "Don Alvaro!" "What is it?" "lt is almost daybreak." "A thousand things have kept me, all night long, from getting to your home." "But the charm of so pure a love as ours wins out over all obstacles." "It was God who willed that our yearning" "should bring us to this present Joy." "Throw these things down into the courtyard." "Stop!" "No, no..." "Follow me." "Leave, at last, your prison." "Oh, Heaven!" "I cannot bring myself to do it." "Horses are ready below," "a priest is waiting at the altar." "Come, my dear, take shelter in my love, and God, from heaven, will give us his blessing." "Tomorrow, when the sun-god of India," "Lord of my royal race, bathes the earth again in his splendour," "he will shine on our wedding Joy." "lt is late." "Come, be quick." "Wait a moment." "Leonora!" "Wait a moment." "l beg you..." "Tomorrow!" "Tomorrow we shall leave." "Once more time I want to see my father, my poor dear father, and you are glad of it, are you not?" "Yes because you love me, you will not forbid it." "Oh, I too, you know it, I love you so!" "And that makes me happy, oh, Heaven, how happy!" "My heart is bursting with Joy!" "Let us stay..." "Yes, Alvaro, I love you, I love you!" "Your heart is bursting with Joy, yet you weep!" "Your hand is cold as death!" "I have understood, my lady!" "Alvaro!" "Alvaro!" "Leonora!" "I alone shall suffer." "May God forbid that your weakness let you follow me." "I release you from your promise." "To marry  would mean death for us... lf you love less than I... lf remorse... I am yours, with all my heart, my love." "I' ll follow you to the end the farthest end of the earth;" "with you, unafraid, I shall face the evil fate of war, and for me there will be nothing but the constant Joy of love." "I shall follow you, let us go, for the fate can never keep us apart." "You are the breath, the light, the soul of this heart which loves you;" "so long as a breath of life is in me, my sole, unchanging desire, shall be to give you you every wish." "Follow me, let us go, for man can never divide us." "That noise!" "They are coming up the stairs!" "Let us leave..." "Let us leave." "Let us go, for man can never divide us." "lt is late." "Then we must be calm." "Holy Virgin!" "Hide in there." "No. I must protect you." "Put it back." "Would you, against my father?" "No, against myself." "Horror!" "Vile seducer!" "Shameless daughter!" "No, father..." "Your " father" no more." "I am the guilty one." "Strike, have your revenge!" "No, your conduct shows the baseness" "of your origins." "Sir!" "Stand aside." "Arrest the scoundrel." "Whoever moves shall die." "What are you doing?" "I yield only to you." "Strike!" "Die by my hand!" "No, such a life as yours is for the hangman." "Signor di Calatrava!" "Pure as the angels is your daughter, this I swear." "The guilt is mine." "Let any doubt which remains be dispelled by my death." "You see me unarmed." "l am dying!" "Oh, cursed weapon!" "Help!" "Away from me!" "The sight of you sullies my death." "Father!" "l curse you!" "Heaven, have mercy!" "Oh, cruel fate!" "Holà, holà, holà!" "Welcome here, muleteer, for a fine night's rest." "Holà, holà, holà!" "You' ll find a glass, to build your strength up once again!" "Dinner is ready." "To dinner, to dinner!" "In vain I seek my sister and the seducer." "Faithless ones!" "You shall bless our meal." "Let the student say grace." "Willingly." "" ln nomine patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti" ." "Amen." "What do I see!" "My brother!" "Good." "Excellent." "It asks to be eaten." ""Tu das epulis accumbere Divum" ." "She knows no Latin, but she can cook." "Long live our hostess!" "Hurrah!" "Aren't you eating, Master Trabuco?" "lt's Friday." "You are fasting?" "Exactly." "And that little one" "who came with you?" "Hurrah for the war!" "Preziosilla!" "Brava!" "Brava!" "Here, next to me." "You can tell us our fortunes." "Who wants to make his fortune?" "All of us!" "Then go as soldiers to Italy, where war has broken out against the Germans." "Death to the Germans!" "Eternal flail of Italy, and of her sons." "We' ll all go." "And I with you." "To the sound of the drum, to the dash of the steed, to the blue swarm of the soldiers' steel;" "to the bustling of the field our thoughts now rise!" "How beautiful is war!" "Hurrah for the war!" "How beautiful is war!" "Hurrah for the war!" "Only he who dies a coward is forgotten;" "the reward for the brave soldier and true valour is glory and honour!" "How beautiful is war!" "Hurrah for the war!" "If you' ll come, my brother, you' ll be made a caporal, and you a colonel, and you a general." "And the little god with the winged bow, will reward you in victory." "How beautiful is war!" "Hurrah for the war!" "And what is in store for the student?" "Ah, you shall pass through most horrible woes." "What are you saying?" "My lips have never lied." "But you, dear lad, I do not believe you." "You are not a student, I shall not betray you," "but no one can make a fool of me, tralalala!" "Hurrah for the war!" "How beautiful is war!" "Hurrah for the war!" "Eternal Father, Lord, have mercy on us." "Holy Son, Lord, have mercy on us." "Holy Spirit, Lord, have mercy on us." "Who are they?" "Pilgrims on their way to the Jubelee." "lf only I could escape." "Lat's wait for them to pass." "Then let us, too, kneel in prayer." "Yes, let us pray." "Over us, who humbly pray Thee, extend Thy hand, O Lord." "Ah, save me from a brother." "Holy Spirit, Lord, have mercy on us." "From the suffering of hell, save us in Thy goodness." "Lord, have mercy on us." "Hurrah for our goodly company!" "Hurrah!" "Health to us here, eternal glory later." "So be it." "Are you already with the angels, Trabuco?" "What, in a hell like this?" "And the little one who came with you, why?" "For the Jubilee?" "l do not know." "By the way..." "A cock or a hen?" "A traveller's money is all I ever notice." "And a wise man you are!" "You saw them come." "Why didn't the stranger Join us for dinner?" "l do not know." "They said the stranger asked for vinegar and water as refreshment." "It might be." "The stranger is gentle and beardless, right?" "l know nothing." "He won't talk." "I' m still speaking to you." "The stranger straddled the mule or rode side-saddle?" "What a bore!" "And came fome where?" "Sooner or later, I know, I' ll get to heaven." "How do you know?" "Because purgatory lies in talking with you." "Where do you go now?" "To sleep with my mules, who know no Latin, who aren't Bachelors of Arts." "He's escaped!" "Since the stranger is beardless, let's paint him a moustache;" "a good Joke for tomorrow." "Bravo!" "Bravo!" "I must protect all travellers." "I' m against this Joke." "Wouldn't it be better if you told us where you come from, where you' re going and who you are?" "Would you like to know?" "Here is my story." "I am Pereda, rich in honours." "Salamanca made me a Bachelor." "Soon I shall be, in utroque, Doctor, for only a few studies are left to be done." "Vargas took me from there a year ago and brought me with him to Seville." "Pereda refused no challenge," "his heart spoke out for his friend." "A foreigner, his sister's lover, had murdered his father, and the son, like the brave knight he is, swore vengeance against the killer." "We follwed them as far as Cadiz, but could not find the guilty pair." "For his friend, Pereda suffered, for his heart spoke out for him." "There, and every place else we went, we heard that the girl had perished with the father, and that in a fight with the servants and guards, only the seducer escaped." "I then went away from Vargas, while he swore to track down the killer." "He sailed then for America," "and Pereda returned to his books." "Pereda's is a grim story showing his nobleness of heart!" "Well told." "This Marquis was killed?" "Well?" "And the lover carried off the daughter?" "Yes." "And you, the gallant, faithful friend, went to Cadiz from Seville?" "Ah, no one can make a fool of me, tralalala!" "My children, it's late;" "let us give thanks to God for our meal and let's be off." "Let's be off." "Let's be off." "Good night." "At last I am here." "I give Thee thanks, O God!" "This is my last refuge!" "I am here!" "I am trembling!" "My horrid story is known at the inn, told by my own brother!" "If he had discovered me!" "Heaven!" "He said that Don Alvaro has sailed to the west!" "He did not die that night, when I," "wet with my father's blood, followed him, only to lose him!" "And now he leaves me!" "Alas!" "He flees from me!" "I cannot bear this anguish!" "Mother, merciful Virgin," "forgive my sin." "Grant that I my cleanse my heart of his memory." "In this solitude I shall expiate my sin." "Have mercy on me, Lord." "Do not forsake me, O my God." "Ah, this heavenly song!" "The organ's sweet tones, rising like holy incense to God in heaven!" "May this music" "bring faith and comfort and peace" "to my troubled soul!" "Now I shall go to the holy refuge." "Dare I at this hour?" "But they might take me by surprise!" "Oh, wretched Leonora, how you tremble!" "The pious monk will not refuse you shelter." "Do not abandon me, soccour me," "O Lord, in Thy mercy!" "Who are you?" "l wish to speak to the Superior." "The church opens at five o'clock, if you have come for the Jubilee." "ln the name of mercy." "What an hour for asking mercy!" "I come from Father Cleto." "That holy man?" "And for what reason?" "An urgent one." "But why?" "An unfortunate soul..." "The same old tune..." "But I' ll open for you." "Come in." "l cannot." "Are you excommunicated?" "You had better wait outside." "I' ll announce you. lf I don't come back, then goodnight." "And if he refuses me!" "He is said to be merciful," "he will protect me." "Holy Virgin, help me." "Who asks for me?" "lt is I." "Speak." "lt is a secret..." "Go now, Melitone." "Always secrets!" "And only these holy men must know them!" "We are but so much..." "Brother, what are you muttering?" "I was saying that the door is heavy and noisy." "Obey." "We see who's head man here!" "Now we are alone." "We are alone." "l am a woman." "A woman at this hour!" "Great God!" "An unhappy, disappointed, rejected woman, cursed by heaven and earth, who throws herself in tears at your feet and begs you to bring her back from hell." "And how can a poor monk do that?" "Has Father Cleto written to you of me?" "You come from him?" "Yes." "Then you are Leonora di Vargas!" "You shudder!" "No." "Come, trusting, to the cross." "Let the voice of Heaven speak to your heart." "My soul is now more at peace, since coming to this refuge." "The fearful ghouls have ceased to war upon me." "No longer does the bloodstained ghost of my father haunt my sight." "No longer does the frightful curse of a father torture his daughter's mind." "The daring of Satan has always been powerless here." "That is why I seek my tomb here, among the rocks, where another woman lived." "What!" "You know of her?" "Cleto told me." "And you wish..." "To give myself to God." "Woe to him who is deluded by a moment's delirium!" "For one so young as you, the punishment would be all the worse." "My soul is now more at peace, since coming to this refuge." "Woe to him who is deluded." "The fearful ghouls" "Woe!" "have ceased to war upon me." "Woe!" "Who can read into the future?" "Who can tell your heart won't change?" "And your lover?" "Unwillingly, it was he who killed my father." "And your brother?" "He has sworn I shall die by his hand." "It would be better if you sought refuge within some convent's holy doors." "A convent?" "No!" "If you send me, repentant, away, I shall wander through the mountains, calling for help," "asking refuge from the cliffs, food from the woods." "Moving the very beastes to pity." "Here I heard the voice of Heaven saying:" "" Save your soul at the foot of the cross."" "You send me away?" "This is my haven;" "who can take this solace from me?" "Glory to Thee," "O merciful God," "Omnipotent Father of the sorrowing, who livest among the spheres!" "May Thy will be done!" "This is my haven;" "who can take this solace from me?" "Your decision is final?" "lt is." "Then God will welcome you." "Divine goodness!" "Only I shall know who you are." "Among the rocks you will find a cave;" "there you will stay." "At a nearby spring, each seventh day, I shall leave a frugal meal for you." "Let us go." "Melitone!" "Let all the brothers come, with lighted candles, to assemble in the temple of the Lord, at the high altar." "At dawn, you will go alone, on foot, to the hermitage;" "but first let the holy bread bring comfort to your soul." "Go now to put on your holy garb, and may your heart be strong." "Upon the hard, new road, the Lord will send you help." "Eternal God, Thy mercy shines upon the rejected one!" "A strange, new Joy has told me... I am blessed once again!" "Within my breast I feel a new birth of life in my heart." "Sing praises, O ye heavenly choirs, for the Lord has forgiven me my sin." "Go now to put on your holy garb, and may your heart be strong." "The holy name of God our Lord be blessed." "A soul has come, repentant of its sin, to seek salvation in these hills." "For this soul, we open the holy grot." "Do you know where it is?" "We know it." "That haven is sacred, inviolate." "No one shall approach it." "We shall obey." "Nor shall the humble barrier" "which separates us from it ever be crossed." "We shall not cross it." "On him who dares to break this rule or tries to learn the name or secret" "of this soul a curse shall fall!" "A curse shall fall!" "Let heaven hurl its thunderbolts to strike such a man to ashes." "Let all the elements be loosed upon him," "Let his vile ashes be scattered in the winds." "Arise and leave us." "No living person will you see again." "From your cave the bell will warn us if danger threatens you, or if your last hour has come." "Then we shall hasten to comfort your soul, before its return to God." "May Our Lady of the Angels" "shield me beneath Her mantle." "and may the Holy Angel of God" "keep vigil to protect me." "Attend to the game, attend to the game..." "Life itself is hell to the sorrowful." "I seek my death in vain!" "Seville!" "Leonora!" "Oh, these memories!" "Oh, night, when all I love was torn from me!" "My sorrow shall have no end, it is written so." "My father sought to free his native land from its foreign masters, and, by alliance with the last of Incas," "he hoped to win back his crown." "but all in vain!" "I was born in a prison;" "the desert was my only school;" "I am alive today only because my royal birth is known to none!" "My parents dreamed of a throne;" "the axe awakened them!" "Oh, when shall all my sorrows" "come to their end?" "O you, who dwell among the angels," "forever pure," "lovely and untouched now" "by mortal sorrow," "do not forget to look down on me, who, exiled and nameless," "defying fate," "seek battle like a wretched man," "hoping to find there death." "Leonora, help me," "take pity on my anguish." "Have pity on me!" "What shouting!" "Help!" "l am coming." "He shall die!" "They've fled." "Are you wounded?" "No. I owe my life to you." "Who were they?" "Assassins." "Inside the camp?" "l' ll tell you the truth." "lt was a quarrel over cards." "l see..." "Off there to the right?" "Yes." "But how did you, so noble of bearing, come to such a den of thieves?" "I arrived with orders from the General yesterday;" "without you I should now be dead." "Tell me to whom I owe my life!" "To change..." "First I shall tell you my name." "( He must not know the truth!" ")" "Don Felix de Bornos, aide to the chief." "I am Don Federico Herreros," "Captain of Grenadiers." "The hero of our army!" "Sir... I have longed for your friendship;" "I ask it now, hopefully." "And I shall be proud to save yours!" "Friends in life and death the world shall see us." "United in life and death, men shall know us together." "To arms!" "Let us go, to arms!" "Going to the field of honour with you, I shall learn from your brave example." "And as witness of your courage," "I shall admire your brave deeds." "To arms!" "To arms!" "My God!" "He has fallen wounded!" "His men are yielding!" "His aid is rallying them, leading them in a charge!" "The enemy's on the run!" "Our men have won!" "Glory to Spain!" "Long live Italy!" "They' re bringing the wounded Captain here." "Gently... put him here..." "Prepare my bed." "Silence!" "ls he in danger?" "I am concerned because of the chest wound." "Save him!" "Where am I?" "With your friend." "Let me die." "Our care will save you." "You will be rewarded with the Order of Calatrava." "Of Calatrava!" "No!" "Never!" "What!" "You shudder at the name of Calatrava!" "My friend..." "lf you speak..." "One word only..." "Please  leave us for a moment." "You must swear to me, in this solemn hour," "to carry out my wish." "I swear." "Near my heart, look..." "A key!" "There you will find a package." "I entrust it to your honour." "Within, there is a secret which must die with me." "Burn it when I am dead." "I swear to do so." "Now I can die in peace." "I embrace you with all my heart." "My friend, trust in Heaven." "Farewell." "To die!" "What a tremendous thing!" "A man of such courage and daring, yet he will die!" "An extraordinary man!" "But he shuddered at the name of Calatrava!" "Does he perhaps know of our dishonour?" "Heavens!" "What a thought!" "If he were the seducer?" "And in my hands, alive!" "But if I am wrong?" "This key will tell me!" "Here are the papers!" "What am I doing?" "And the oath I swore?" "To him I owe my life?" "But I saved him, too!" "And if he were the cursed Indian who soiled my family's honour?" "I shall break the seal." "No one can see me here." "No?" "But I can see myself." "Fatal vessel of my destiny, leave me now;" "you tempt me uselessly." "I came here to redeem my honour." "I shall not lose it with this new shame." "An oath is sacred to a man of honour;" "These papers shall keep their secret safe." "May the evil thought, which spurred me to an unworthy act," "be put away forever." "But if I might find some other proof?" "Let us see." "Here is a portarait..." "It has no seal..." "He did not speak of it..." "I made no promise..." "Let it be opened then..." "Heaven!" "Leonora!" "Don Alvaro is the wounded man!" "Now may he live!" "Then, by my hand, ha shall die!" "Good news." "He is saved." "He is saved!" "What a Joy!" "He is saved!" "What great Joy I feel in my heart!" "At last I shall wreak my vengeance on the villain for his betrayal." "Leonora, where are you hidden?" "Tell me, have you followed here the man who reddened your face" "with the blood of your father?" "Ah, I should be wholly happy if this sword of mine might dispatch both in a single blow down to the lord of hell!" "When the sound of fife and drum deafens the very earth, then we are glad, for war is life and Joy to the soldier." "A gay, adventurous life;" "tomorrow, like yesterday, counts nothing, for every thought of ours is centred on today." "Come to the fortune-teller, who has come from far away." "for she can read the message of the dark, mysterious future." "Come running, gather round her reach out your hands to her!" "For she can tell if sweethearts have been faithful to you." "Let us run to the fortune-teller, holding out our hands to her, for she' ll tell if your sweethearts have been faithful to you." "Those, who want Paradise, pluck up your courage, and prepare to defeat the barbarian invader." "Come forward, you' ll hear me predict what prizes you will win from your fighting." "Come forward, we' ll hear her predict what prizes we' ll win from our fighting." "Here, girls, a swollow." "To our health!" "Our health!" "Who wants to buy?" "My prices are cheap." "Scissors and pins and wonderful soap." "I buy and sell whatever you want, cash on the spot for all kinds of deals." "Here is a bracelet;" "what will you pay?" "Here is a necklace." "I' ll sell if you wish." "Here are some earings;" "what will you pay?" "We want to sell... lt looks to me like a lot of trash." "Just like your rascally face." "But let's make a deal..." "For every piece, thirty pennies." "We' re dealing with a thief!" "Hey, what tempers!" "Let's talk about it." "Maybe I can add a penny or two." "Let me have it, now or never!" "First, right away, give us the money, shiny and ringing." "First the goods, here, that's the way." "Here you are!" "Here you are." "Good!" "To the devil with you." "What a deal!" "Who wants to buy?" "My pieces are cheap..." "Our poor mothers wept as we left them, snatched by cruel war." "They have torn us away from all we love, our only wish is to go home again." "Weep no more, young men, for your mothers and sweethearts." "We' ll love you like sisters, we know how to make you happy." "Don't be frightened, we' re not devils." "Come now, dry your tears, for now it's plain, it's useless to think about the past." "Shame on you!" "Come, be brave!" "Handsome lads, have you gone mad?" "If you blubber like babies, your comrades will laugh at you." "Take a look at what's around you, I' ll bet you I can guess..." "You will see lots of pretty faces which will comfort you tomorrow." "Come now, courage!" "In war it's only gaiety which can keep our hearts rejoicing;" "hurrah, then, for this madness, which can fluorish only here." "Ho!" "Ho!" "What's going on?" "What an uproar!" "Fine goings-on!" "And I' m in the midst." "I came from Spain to bendage wounds and to salvage souls." "And what do I find?" "is this a Christian camp or a lot of Turks?" "Whoever saw such irriverent nonsense on the holy sabbath?" "In this army there are more bottles than battles!" "And instead of sackcloth and ashes, must wa have Venus and Bacchus?" "The earth has become a house of tears, and every convent, the haven of rascals!" "The sanctuaries have become the lairs cutthroats!" "And Christ's temples are a sorry sight." "Everything's topsy-turvy!" "And do you know why?" "" Pro peccata vestra" , because of your sins!" "Ah, holy Brother!" "You profane the feast days!" "You steal, you curse..." "infamous friar!" "Go ahead, Reverend." "And all of you are of the same stamp." "Heretics, the lot of you." "You are sewers of sin." "Give it to him!" "And as long as you befoul the earth, the world will know no peace." "Give it to him!" "Run away, run away!" "Let him go." "Fighting with a monk!" "What brave sport!" "They can't hear me?" "Then the drum must save him." "Rataplan, rataplan, rataplan." "Rataplan, rataplan, the love of glory burns brighter in the soldier;" "rataplan, rataplan, the beat of the drum promises victory in battle." "Rataplan, rataplan, the ranks are forming and they' re off to war!" "Rataplan, rataplan, the enemy's flag will soon be in retreat!" "Give us charity." "We've been waiting an hour!" "We must be on our way!" "Give us charity!" "What?" "Do you think you are at the inn?" "Be quiet!" "Here, quick, give me some..." "Quiet, quiet!" "How many portions they' re getting!" "They want the lot for themselves." "Maria's had three helpings already!" "Four for me..." "Four for her!" "Yes, because I've got six children..." "And why have you got six?" "Because the Lord sent them." "Ah!" "Yes, the Lord..." "You wouldn't have them if, like me, you whipped your back with a rough scourge, and spent all your nights reciting rosaries and Misereres..." "Brother..." "But those beggars are really dreadfully fertile..." "Be charitable." "Give us a drop more of that swill." "You rascals, you call this manna from heaven swill?" "Me, Father, me..." "Oh, go to perdition, or I' ll settle you with a ladle over your heads." "I' m losing my patience!" "Be kind to them." "Father Raffaele was kinder to us." "Yes, but in a week he'd had enough of the poor and the soup, he kept to his room and unloaded the burden on to Melitone..." "And now how can I treat such a rabble kindly?" "The poor suffer so much..." "Charity is a duty." "Charity for people who make a living out of it?" "The sort who'd knock down a church steeple with their fists." "who call this manna from heaven swill..." "Rogues and vagabonds!" "Oh, Father Raffaele!" "He was an angel!" "A saint!" "Don't pester me so!" "A saint!" "A saint!" "Here, take what's left, no more arguments." "Get out of here, leave me, out you go into the sunshine." "You' re beggars worse than Lazarus sacks of wickedness." "Away with you, to the devil, you knaves, take yourselves off." "Oh!" "I haven't the patience for it!" "No, the Lord did not give you too much." "To give charity is to fulfil a duty that could make an angel proud..." "Who, after three days in my Job, would end up doling out blows instead of stews." "Peace; you must be humble, Melitone, and not be hurt to see Raffaele preferred to you." "Me?" "No..." "I' m his friend, but he has odd ways..." "talks to himself... and has a strange look in his eyes... lt is due to his prayers, the fasting." "Yesterday, while working in the orchard, he rolled his eyes so much that Jokingly I said to him:" "Father, you look like a mulatto." "He glared at me, clenched his fists, and..." "Well?" "When the lightning struck the belfry and he went out into the storm, I shouted at him:" ""You look like a wild Indian."" "and he gave such a yell that my blood froze." "What blame is there in that?" "None, but I looked at him and remembered how you told us that the devil once lived here in a monk's habit..." "Could Father Raffaele be a relative of his?" "A rash conclusion..." "I spoke the truth, but it was revealed to the Superior of the time..." "Not to me." "That's true!" "But the Father's a very strange one!" "What's the reason?" "Disillusionment with the world, his constant penances," "the vigils, the fasting, have disturbed his mind." "The disillusionment, the constant penances, the vigils, the fasting, must have turned his brain!" "Someone has come." "Open." "Are you the doorkeeper?" "A weird one, this!" "I Just opened for you;" "I should think so." "Father Raffaele?" "( Another one!" ")" "We have two Raffaeles;" "one from Porcuna, fat, deaf as a post;" "the other is lean, dark, his eyes..." "( Heaven, what eyes!" ")" "Which one do you seek?" "The one from hell." "(That's him!" ")" "And who is calling?" "A gentleman." "What manners!" "A nasty kind." "It was useless, Alvaro, to hide from the world and to try to shield your villainy in hypocritical robes." "Hate and thirst for vengeance showed me the road to this cloister where you hide." "No one here shall keep us apart;" "only blood, your blood, can wash away the stain which outraged my honour, and I shall spill it all," "I swear to God." "Brother..." "Recognize me!" "Don Carlo!" "You, alive!" "For five years I have followed you, at last I've found you." "Blood alone can cancel the infamy, your crime;" "that I should punish you one day was written in the book of fate." "Once you were brave;" "now, as a monk, you have no sword." "But I shall have your blood..." "Choose, for l have two." "Once I lived among men, so I understand;" "But this monk's habit, the cloister, they bespeak my salvation from sin," "the repentance of my heart!" "Leave me!" "Neither that garb nor the hermitage will be able to defend you, coward!" "Coward!" "What a word..." "Ah, no!" "Help me, O my Lord!" "Fierce words and threats are carried off by the wind." "Forgive me, have pity." "Brother, have pity!" "Why offend in this way a man who was only unfortunate?" "Come, let us bow before fate, brother, have pity!" "You soil the very name of pity." "When you went away, my sister remained, abandoned and betrayed" "to infamy, to dishonour." "No, she was not dishonoured." "It is a monk who gives you this oath." "On earth, I adored her as only one in heaven can love." "I love her still;" "if she still loves me, my heart cannot ask for more." "My anger will not be quieted by base and cowardly words." "Take up your sword and come," "do battle with me, O traitor!" "If now it is too late for either remorse or tears to speak for me, you shall see me as none has ever seen me, prostrate at your feet." "The stain upon your crest is proved by this act." "My crest shines brighter than a Jewel." "It is coloured by your half-breed's blood." "You lie in your throat!" "Give me a sword." "Lead on!" "At last!" "No..." "The devil shall not triumph." "Go, leave me." "You mock at me?" "Go." "If now, you coward, you lack courage to measure swords with me," "I condemn you to dishonour." "Ah, now you have sealed your fate!" "Death to both!" "My fury shall be satisfied." "Hell shall swallow you." "Peace," "peace, O my God!" "Cruel misfortune compels me, alas, to languish, for so many years have I suffered, as bitterly still as at first." "I loved him, it is true!" "But God has blessed him with such beauty and virtue that I love him still, and never shall I be able" "to efface his image from my heart." "Ah, destiny!" "A crime divided us here below!" "Alvaro, I love you," "and in heaven it is written that I shall never see you again!" "O God, let me die, for only in death shall I know peace." "My soul sought peace in vain in this world, my soul, the prey of eternal sorrow." "O wretched bread, which lengthens out this sorry life." "But who comes now, daring to profane this sacred refuge?" "A curse upon him!" "I am dying!" "Confession!" "Save my soul!" "This, too, is the blood of a Vargas." "Confession!" "l am damned!" "But nearby there is a hermitage." "Come quickly, to console a dying man." "l cannot." "Brother!" "In the Saviour's name!" "l cannot." "You must." "Help!" "Help!" "Ah, come!" "Rash man, flee from the wrath of Heaven!" "A woman!" "This voice..." "Ah, no, a ghost..." "What do I see?" "You, Leonora!" "It is really he." "I see you once again." "Do not come near me." "These hands are drenched with blood." "Away!" "What are you saying?" "There a man lies dead." "You killed him?" "I did all I could to avoid fighting." "I had left the world for the cloister." "He found me, insulted me, I killed him." "And who was he?" "Your brother!" "O God!" "Cruel destiny, how you mock me!" "Leonora is alive, and I must find her only when" "I have killed her brother!" "What a cry!" "What has happened?" "She... wounded!" "Even in his last hour, he could not forgive." "He avenged our shame with my blood." "Not even with his death was the vengeance of God satisfied!" "Curses!" "Do not curse;" "humble yourself before Him who is holy and Just..." "Yes, weep and pray." "... who leads us to eternal Joys..." "Weep..." "... over a road of tears." "An outcast, a damned soul am I." "Pray..." "Do not speak a word of blasphemous wrath and fury." "A flood of blood surges up between us." "While this angel is leaving us... I promise you God's pardon." "... flying to the throne of God." "Weep and pray!" "Kneel." "I promise you God's pardon." "I cannot resist this voice any longer." "Kneel!" "Leonora," "I am redeemed." "Heaven has pardoned me." "Praise be to Thee, O Lord." "Joyfully now I go before you," "into the promised land." "There, this strife cannot follow us." "and holiness will bless our love." "You condemn me to live on, abandoning me here on earth." "Only the guilty one, I see, will escape punishment." "I wait for you in heaven." "Goodbye!" "Do not leave me, Leonora!" "I go before you..." "Alvaro..." "Dead!" "She has ascended to God."