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In vain did Lomellino, who loved him like a father, endeavour to

discover the source of his e exert hi

favourite Flodoardo remained silent and sad

And Rosabella? Rosabella would have belied her sex had she reay while Flodoardo sorrowed Her spirits were flown, her eyes were

frequently obscured with tears She grew daily paler and paler,

till the Doge, who doted on her, was seriously alarrew really ill; a fever fixed itself

upon her; she became weak, and was confined to her chamber, and her

complaint baffled the skill of the most experienced physicians in

Venice

In the midst of these unpleasant circumstances in which Andreas and

his friends now found the,

which raised their uneasiness to the very highest pitch Never had

so bold and audacious an action been heard of in Venice, as that

which I a to relate

The four banditti, whom Flodoardo had seized, Pietrino, Struzza,

Baluzza, and Thoeons, where they underwent a daily examination, and looked upon

every sun that rose as the last that would ever rise for THEM

Andreas and his confidential counsellors now flattered the more to apprehend, and that