This cheerful assurance calmed the tumult of Ferdinand's mind, and enabled him with alacrity to prepare for his journey. The following day Ernest waited on him by the Count's order with a handsome sum of money for his necessary expenses; the colour mounted to Ferdinand's cheeks, he hesitated, paced about the room, and seemed in violent agitations.—"Pray, dear Sir," cried Ernest, 'take the money, think of it less as your brother's present, than as a small part of your father's property, to which you have unquestionably a right."
"Not so," replied Ferdinand, "I can have no right to what he has bequeathed from me, and to receive pecuniary favours from a man I think capable of duplicity, lowers me in my own esteem."
"Be not so scrupulous, Sir, I beseech you," returned Ernest; 'take it, fortune may enable you to return it, and I'll pledge my life you will not hereafter regret accepting the money, or think much of the obligation as you call it."
