text:  An attachment has existed between him and the Countess Elvira sister of Carlos; but this has recently been succeeded on the side of Manuel by a violent passion he has conceived for the viceroy's sister-in-law Donna Isabella a haughty beauty who only encourages the young Creole so far as it accords with the views of Vanegas some of whose designs would be promoted by the absence from Mexico of the Count San Jago's nephew and heir