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At that reat distance He looked

around, and in an adjacent street, which the ure, wrapped in a cloak, pacing

slowly backwards and forwards

"'Tis the hand of God which hath guided hiar in Venice than the villain in Naples;

for the beggar's heartfro

street Just as he entered it at one end, he perceived another

person advancing through the other, of whose approach the first was

no sooner aware than he hastily retired into the shadow of a piazza,

anxious to conceal hiht our mendicant "Is yon eavesdropper

one of death's unlicensed

fee of some impatient heir, who pants to possess the wealth of the

unlucky knave who co yonder, so careless and

unconscious? Be not so confident, honest friend! I'm at your

elbow"

He retired further into the shade, and silently and slowly drew near

the lurker, who stirred not froer had