Mr Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat

Author:Frederick Marryat [Marryat, Frederick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical Naval Fiction
ISBN: 9781163211519
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: 1835-12-31T11:00:00+00:00

" * Villain ! I know thee; down on your knees, for your life is forfeited.'

" He turned pale, trembled, and sank upon his knees.

" * Now, then/ continued I, 'you have but one chance—either drink off this flagon ot wine, or I pass my sword through your body.—He hesitated, and I put the point to his breast,—even pierced the flesh a quarter of an inch.

" ' Drink/ cried I—' is it so very unjust an order to tell you to drink old wine ? Drink/ continued I, ' or my sword does its duty/

" He drank, and would then have quitted the room. ' No, no/ said I, * you remain here, and the wine must have its effect. If I have wronged you I will make amends to you—but I am suspicious/

" In about a quarter of an hour, during which time I paced up and down the room, with my sword drawn, my servant fell * down, and cried in mercy to let him have a priest I sent for my own confessor, and he then acknowledged that he was an agent of my mother and Father Ignatio, and had been the means of making it appear that I was the committer of all the crimes and murders which had been perpetrated by them, with a view to my destruction. A strong emetic having been administered to him, he partially revived, and was taken to Palermo, where he gave his evidence before he expired.

"When this was madejcnown, the king revoked his sentence, apologized to me, and I found that once more I was visited and courted by everybody. My mother was ordered to be shut up in a convent, where she died, I trust, in grace; and Father Ignatio fled to Italy, and I have been informed is since dead.

"Having thus rid myself of my principal enemies, I considered myself safe. I married the lady whom you have just seen, and before my eldest son was born, Don Silvio, for such was the name given to my asserted legitimate brother, came of age, and demanded his succession. Had he asked me for a proper support, as my uterine brother, I should not have refused; but that the son of Friar Ignatio, who had so often attempted my life, should, in case of my decease, succeed to the title and estates, was not to be borne. A lawsuit was immediately commenced, which lasted four or five years, during which Don Silvio married, and had a son, that young man whom you heard me address by the same name; but after much litigation, it was

decided that my father's confessor and will had proved his illegitimacy, and the suit was in my favour. From that time to this, there has been a constant enmity. Don Silvio refused all my offers of assistance, and followed me with a pertinacity which often endangered my life. At last he fell by the hands of his own agents, who mistook him for me. Don

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