THE DISASTER CEREMONY

Vila Dalton is decorated with white flowers and lamps, the fountains are already taking their places in the Vila chapel. The Anderson family, oblivious to the events of the previous night, are excited and anxious about the final preparations for the instruction.

Inside the chapel are Mr. Leonard Anderson, Frei Burt, Mr. Jeff, Nick and Blaine, waiting for the distinguished gentlemen at the altar, when Don David, don Sebastian and Kurt enter through the main door of the church, marching as if they are going there is a war.

Everyone positioned themselves to begin the instruction, Blaine with a hopeful smile on his face, while Kurt maintained a serious face.

"Come on, Frei Burt, be brief; will suffice as wedding formalities; then you will discuss the duties of the spouses. "Said Mr. Leonard playfully, not noticing the strange air that hung over Don David and Kurt's features.

Starting the formalities of the information, Frei Burt speaks out loud to all the sources that appear in the crowded church, listen, turns to Kurt and says: "Are you here, Mr. Kurt, to marry this boy?"

With an impassive face and a hard voice, Kurt replies dryly "NO!"

At first, the first ones took Kurt's answer as a joke, and the giggles and whispers flooded the church, waiting for the celebration to continue as expected.

In a playful tone, Mr. Leonard addresses Kurt and says "To marry Blaine and be your husband, of course you are here to marry him". And he laughed, not realizing the seriousness of the situation

Then addressing Blaine, Frei Burt says: "Did you come here, my dear Blaine, to marry Count Kurt?", Which was promptly answered with the most beautiful of smiles on Blaine's face "YES!"

Continuing a statement, now addressing the others present in the chapel, Frei Burt says "-If any of those present know of any impediment to the realization of this wedding, for the salvation of the soul, reveal it now or shut up forever." .

Kurt, taking his cue to speak, turns to Blaine and, looking straight into the boy's eyes sarcastically says, "Do you know any, bad dear Blaine?", Which was answered with a hesitant smile and a confused tone of voice "None, Mr. "

Sensing that the situation was taking a strange turn, Frei in turn asks Count Kurt: "Do you know any, Count Kurt, who would you like to tell?"

Mr. Leonard, trying to put the situation on track, half without knowing what was happening there, said "I dare answer for him: none."

Seized by Mr. Leonard's reply, Kurt, then even more challenging and with a tone of voice even more poisonous than before, begins "Oh! How dare men do! How much they can do! How much they do every day, without knowing what they are doing! "

Mr. Jeff, who until then only observed the situation that was going on, spoke to friend Kurt trying to understand what was going on there "What is this? Interjections? Let at least some be laughing: ah! Ah! ah! " trying to break the tension created in the environment, but he was answered by Kurt, addressing the friar sharply. "Frei Burt, stay aside for a moment." Which made the situation stranger and more uncomfortable.

Kurt then went on, his face increasingly serious and his voice increasingly high and dry, addressing his speech to Mr. Leonard Anderson: "Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen here. I wonder; is it without embarrassment, father, of your own free will that you give me this young boy, your son? "

Confused and annoyed by the tone of the question asked by Kurt, Mr. Leonard answered nonetheless "As free and honorable, son, as God has given me", and placed his right hand on Blaine's shoulder, who no longer had his face so happy as at the beginning of the ceremony.

Continuing his speech, Kurt approached Blaine, looking him straight in the eye, but said to Mr. Leonard, "And I, a mere Count, who could give you in return, as a reward for such a rich and precious gift? "

It was then that Prince Don David spoke for the first time at the ceremony. Unmoved face of emotions, but poison in his voice: "Nothing, except to return such treasure to his father.", Receiving confused looks from everyone who was at the altar.

Taking Blaine's hands in his, Kurt then speaks with sarcasm in his voice, and a look of disgust to the boy "Noble thanks, dear prince, with this you teach me. Here, Mr. Leonard, I received your son again. " And he pushes Blaine towards Mr. Leonard, with no regard for the boy.

Those present, taken aback by Count Kurt's action, begin to murmur on the church pews. Blaine, taken aback by the jerk he took, startled, loses his balance and falls to the floor at the feet of his father and Nick.

Regardless of Blaine, who had fallen, and looking confused and desperate, already had tears streaming down his face, Kurt continued his speech "Don't give any friend this rotten orange inside, what external signs and appearance, just, of honor keeps. " And pointing with disdain towards poor Blaine, who was in agony, shaking his head in despair, repeating like a mantra "What's going on!", Kurt turns to the guests and says in a loud and good tone "Contemplate it, blushing like virgins! Oh! How can the brilliance of virtue put on artificial sin! Isn't that blush a modest evidence of virtue? Would you not swear, everyone who sees him, that he is pure and honorable, if you were to judge him only by appearance? But it is not such that the ardor he knows from the bed of lust. If he blushes, it is not out of innocence, it is the fault of remembering the lack of modesty in his actions. "

The church was already in an uproar due to the situation that was unfolding, and mainly, due to Kurt's speech. Trying to understand everything that was going on, Mr. Leonatd turns to Kurt and asks, in a lower tone of voice: "What do you intend, Mr. Count?", Being answered harshly "No more getting married, not joining a so fake and dirty. "

Shocked by the harshness of the response, Mr. Leonard, nervous and embarrassed by the situation, says "If by chance, dear count, you have proof, because you have overcome the resistance of your virginity, if you had the opportunity to advance your resistance before the wedding. .. "but was brutally interrupted by Count Kurt" ahhhh ... I understand how much you mean: if I met him, by chance; if he gave himself over to me as a husband, which excuses my wrongdoing. But not! Mr. Leonard ... I never tried it with bold and seductive expressions, but, as a pilgrim who addresses a saint, I always spoke to him in decorous terms, revealing a pure and respectful affection. "

Blaine, trying to defend himself against such accusations, says with a trembling voice with emotion, "And how different did I look, my lord?", Which was met with venom in Kurt's eyes and words.

"-Outside appearances! Did it? I will write against that. You give me the impression of a Diana in her sphere, chaste as a button, before opening; but what is certain is that you have more burning in your blood than Venus or than these highly nourished beasts that delight in unbridled sensuality ".

More and more agonized and desperate, young Blaine tries to reason with his, until then engaged, "Sir ... by any chance, are you sick or hallucinating, to speak like that?" not having the strength to get up off the floor, and being supported by Nick.

Chaos had already taken over the church. The guests commented on what happened, without worrying about being discreet. Mr. Leonard, increasingly nervous, addresses Don David in agony "My dear prince, why don't you say anything?"

Don David, on the other hand, with his head held high as in an obvious challenge to his desperate father "What can I say? I feel dishonored to have had the desire to link my great friend to a person without honor like his son! ".

The whole ceremony became pandemonium. Blaine was crying desperately on the floor supported by Nick and Jeff, who tried to calm him down without success. Frei Burt did not know what to do, standing at the altar just watching the scene that unfolded there. Don Leonard, with his hand on his chest, I start to stagger, agonized by the count's revelations, and supported by his brother, he says "Is it a dream, chance, or reality?

It was then that Don Sebastian, who until then, observed the spectacle of horror that he, secretly created, addresses the agonized father and speaks, with false seriousness "These are words, sir, and all of them only translate, only the most pure truth. "

Wanting to put an end to the fateful ceremony, Kurt looking with some disdain at the boy who was crying desperately on the floor, hugged by his cousin and friend Nick, addresses Mr. Leonard. Use your benign and paternal influence, so that he will give me the most sincere and true answer. "

Taking a deep breath, trying to get his emotions in order, don Leonard replies to the young count "As a father, I command you to answer only the truth, Blaine!" and looks hard in the eyes of the son who was on the floor, almost hyperventilating from being so nervous.

"Oh! My God! What question do you want to ask me, sir? What could I have done that was so vile to treat me like that? " replied poor Blaine, between sobs and attempts to fill his lungs with air that refused to work.

Hardening his tone, his eyes cruelly directed at the emotional boy, Kurt asks "What man did you talk to on your room balcony last night, between midnight and one in the morning? If you are as pure and dignified as you swear, answer the question I ask you. "

Screaming, Blaine replied "I didn't speak to anyone, my lord !" and trying to reach for his hands to take Kurt's hands, Blaine remains desperate "... at this hour, I was alone in my room!"

Trying to keep the emotions that ate at his body, Kurt takes a step back, which makes Blaine fall to the floor again, crying.

Don David, placing his hands on Kurt's shoulder, as a form of support for his friend, tells Blaine harshly. "So, nothing more proves that this young man has no dignity and honor. I'm sorry, Mr. Leonard, but hearing this statement, I feel obliged to defend the honor of this noble count. Under my word of honor, myself, my brother and this count betrayed here, at one o'clock last night, we could see him and hear him talking on the balcony of his room, with a debauch who, miserable without any qualms, confessed to the repeated secret meetings with him a thousand times already. "

Don Sebastian, seeing his plan to destroy the ceremony, and indirectly the lives of the two young people, speaks venomously in the speech, to make the situation even worse for young Blaine "Oh! Now! We can hardly describe it, my brother, or deal with it. Our education does not allow us to express such an act without offense. So, charming boy, I regret your mismanagement very much. "

Taking a deep breath, to hold back the agony that took his being, Kurt turns to Blaine and says "O Blaine, Blaine ... what a fiance you would have been, if half of your outer graces had employed to adorn your acts and the advice of the heart ! Goodbye, beautiful disloyal! Farewell, false dignity and purity! Because of you, I will close the doors of my heart to love, letting suspicion hang from my eyes, so that beauty may change for me in falsehood, always depriving it of any charms. "

"Doesn't anyone have a dagger to hurt me?" shouts Mr. Leonard, in agony seeking the count's sheath to try to get rid of the shame he was in. Seeing his brother's desperation, Mr. Antony Anderson, he embraces his brother to support him, and also to prevent you from doing something that you later regret.

In the midst of all the commotion, Blaine, overcome by the panic that the injuries made by his ex-fiance and princes, in front of all the guests, ends up fainting, driving Nick to despair. " Cousin? Cousin? What are you feeling? "

Taking advantage of the moment, Don Sebastian puts his hands on the shoulder of his brother, Don David and says solemnly, "Let's go soon. When truths are revealed, feelings suffocate the giants. " And without looking back, Don David leads the group's exit through the Church's gates, dragging on his shoulder, Kurt, who the moment he saw his ex fiance faint, momentarily felt the need to help him, but was stopped by don Sebastian.