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The nextin Venice seeplace; and

yet, since her first foundation, never had a more important day

risen on the Republic

The inhabitants of the ducal palace were in motion early The

impatient Andreas forsook the couch on which he had passed a

sleepless and anxious night, as soon as the first sunbeah the lattice of his chamber Rosabella had

employed the hours of rest in drea of him, even after sleep was fled Camilla's

love for her fair pupil had broken her repose; she loved Rosabella

as had she been her daughter, and are that on this interesting

day depended the love-sick girl's whole future happiness For so to her harp theso serious and so

uneasy; but when an to forsake

her She quitted her instrument, and paced the cha hour her heart palpitated

with greater pain and violence, and she trembled in expectation of

the scene which was soon to take place

The most illustrious persons in Venice already filled her uncle's

palace; the afternoon so e now desired Careat saloon, where she was expected with impatience by all those

ere of most consequence in the Republic