This information agreeing with the intelligence which the priest
had already received, and being corroborated by the marks upon his
body, and the very scars of the wounds which had been inflicted
upon him in his infancy, the confessor, without further hesitation,
saluted him by the name of Count d'Alvarez, grandee of Spain, and
explained the whole mystery of his fortune.
"If he was agreeably amazed at this explanation, the case was
otherwise with his wife, who thought herself in great danger of
being abandoned by a husband of such high rank; but he immediately
dispelled her apprehension, by assuring her, that, as she had shared
in his adversity, she should also partake of his good fortune. He
set out immediately for Vienna, to make his acknowledgments to the
emperor, who favoured him with a very gracious reception, promised
to use his influence, so that he might enjoy the honours and estate
of his family; and in the meantime acknowledged himself his debtor
for four hundred thousand florins, which he had borrowed from
his uncle. He threw himself at the feet of his august protector,
expressed the most grateful sense of his goodness, and begged
he might be permitted to settle in some of his imperial majesty's
dominions.
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