Villela

Villela and her daughters, Spanish ladies, and authorized by the King of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

Rita was a trifle older than both the men: she was thirty, Villela twenty-nine and

Brazilian Tales Carmen Dolores 1881

Villela a costly cane, and from Rita, a hastily pencilled, ordinary note expressing good wishes.

Brazilian Tales Carmen Dolores 1881

A short time after this, however, Villela commenced to grow grave, speaking very little, as if something weighed upon his mind.

Brazilian Tales Carmen Dolores 1881

But this did not help to ease Camillo; he now feared lest the anonymous writer should inform Villela, in which case the catastrophe would follow fast and implacably.

Brazilian Tales Carmen Dolores 1881

He returned to the street, and the thought that they had been discovered grew every moment more convincing; yes, the author of the previous anonymous communications must have denounced him to the husband; perhaps by now Villela knew all.

Brazilian Tales Carmen Dolores 1881

Camillo left at once; as he reached the street it occurred to him that it would have been much more natural for Villela to have called him to his office; why to his house?

Brazilian Tales Carmen Dolores 1881

Camillo and Villela looked at each other tenderly.

Brazilian Tales Carmen Dolores 1881

At the beginning of the year 1869 Villela returned from the interior, where he had married a silly beauty; he abandoned the magistracy and came hither to open a lawyer's office.

Brazilian Tales Carmen Dolores 1881

Villela, Camillo and Rita: three names, one adventure and no explanation of how it all began.

Brazilian Tales Carmen Dolores 1881