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I infor of the last chapter, that

Flodoardo was become melancholy, and that Rosabella was indisposed,

but I did not tell thee

Flodoardo, who on his first arrival at Venice was all gaiety, and

the life of every society in which he led, lost his spirits on

one particular day; and it so happened that it was on the very same

day that Rosabella betrayed the first symptoms of indisposition

For on this unlucky day did the caprice of accident, or perhaps the

Goddess of Love (who has her caprices too every now and then),

conduct Rosabella into her uncle's garden, which none but the Doge's

intie hi the evening hours

of a sultry day

Rosabella, lost in thought, wandered listless and unconscious along

the broad and shady alleys of the garden Someti leaves froround; sometimes she stopped suddenly, then

rushed forith iazed

upon the clear blue heaven Soular h escaped from her lips of coral