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Since Rosabella's birthday, no wohtest

pretensions to beauty, or the

conquests, had any subject of conversation except the handsoue, and she

who dared not to eue, hts Many a maiden now enjoyed less tranquil

sluhed as she laid on her

colour at the looking glass; ot the rules which she

had iardens and walks

in which report gave her the hope ofhimself at the head of the sbirri,

he had dared to enter boldly the den of the banditti, and seize them

at the hazard of his life, he was scarcelythe e and unshaken presence of ed in so

perilous an adventure; but stillwhere the bravoes concealed themselves,

an attempt which foiled even the keen wits of the so e Andreas cultivated the acquaintance of this singular young

assiduity; and theof consideration did Flodoardo appear The

action by which he had rendered the Republic a service so essential

was rewarded by a present that would not have disgraced Iratitude, and one of the most important offices of the State was