A crimson flush was reflected from the faces of each, as Don Emanuel paused, and Sebastian covered his eyes with his hand: each felt at that moment a sentiment of having been dishonoured.--De Castro resumed. “Urracca, (this servant I spoke of,) was the confidant of their meetings, for they took place in her apartments, and by her contrivance; she assured me that their guilty attachment had endured for more than a year, when I returned to Portugal. Gonsalva was then awakening from her vain dream of a throne; for your Majesty had graciously announced to your subjects that it was your intention to marry at some future period, and negociations with France and Spain were even then on foot: she began to think that to share my fortune and honours, was preferable to this pursuit of a phantom; I was therefore received with flattering ardour. “It was after this period that she saw her royal victim.--O, Sire! must I go on?--dare I repeat those acts of treasonable deception,--of amazing ingratitude, which--” “All, all, De Castro!” replied Sebastian, “Judge not my heart exactly by these coward cheeks of mine: ’tis the trick of my nature to grow pale and red, at what stirs not the complexion of other men--go on--my passions are not so inflammable as they used to be--go on!--” Don Emanuel bowed his head and resumed.--“Your Majesty’s first interview with Gonsalva charmed her vanity, it offered her amusement; she saw you again; and when detailing the adventure to Urracca, she expressed a certainty of being familiar with your features, and suddenly exclaimed--“it is the portrait of Don Sebastian, that he resembles!”--In one moment her vanity and imagination had too truly united this likeness with the circumstance of the court being then at Crato, and when she saw you again, Sire, by seemingly random railleries, she nearly confirmed herself in her suspicion. “Don Antonio had a picture of your Majesty on a snuff-box, Gonsalva examined it attentively at their next meeting, and determining to be satisfied compleatly, obtained her aunt’s permission to attend her to the cathedral of Crato, where the court were to be present at the celebration of high mass.--There, concealed under a veil, she beheld and recognized her mysterious admirer.--