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"Fear not," continued Rosalvo; "Monaldeschi, it is true, fell by my

hand, but fell in honourable combat The blood which stained his

sword flowed from my veins, and in his last moments conscience

asserted her empire in his bosom He died not till he had written

in his tablets the most positive declaration of my innocence as to

the crimes hich his hatred had contrived to blacken ht obtain at Naples the

restoration of my forfeited estates and the re-establishment of my

injured honour Those means have been already efficacious, and all

Naples is by this time informed of the arts by which Monaldeschi

procured my banishment, and of the many plots which he laid for my

destruction; plots, which made it necessary for uise After various

wanderings chance led me to Venice My appearance was so much

altered, that I dreaded not discovery, but I dreaded (and with

reason) perishing in your streets with hunger In this situation

accident brought me acquainted with the banditti, by wholy unitedthe Republic from the presence of these

wretches, and partly in the hope of discovering through theers were employed I

was successful I delivered the banditti up to justice, and stabbed