ABSTRACT
This chapter reproduces the text from Chapter XVII of Ada Reis, Volume 1. Fiormonda was no longer a beautiful child, but a lovely and accomplished girl, heiress of immense riches, and surrounded by adoring suitors. Ada Reis had established himself at Lima; he had purchased a magnificent house near the viceroy’s palace; he lived in splendour; he dedicated much of his time to the cultivation of Fiormonda’s mind, who grew every day more and more beautiful, but likewise more fond of power and admiration. Ada Reis had hitherto kept her strictly according to the customs of the country he had left, seldom permitting her to be seen by any but female eyes.
