ABSTRACT

This chapter reproduces the text from Chapter II of Ada Reis, Volume II. Of all the solemnities observed in America, the public entry of the viceroy into the city of Lima was considered as the most splendid. The viceroy of Lima approached the calash, and was silent for some moments as he took a nearer view of the young Fiormonda, who stood up all unveiled, her countenance animated, and her eyes, naturally gentle and timid, now brilliant with eagerness: a cavalcade of gentlemen surrounded the calash, and the viceroy himself now requested the duenna to permit her lovely charge to indulge her inclination. During this altercation, Fiormonda, with great sweetness and dignity, stood up in the calash, silent, but casting a contemptuous glance upon Shaffou Paca, whose tongue, being once set in motion, continued a sharp and unceasing alarum.