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He replaced the phial in his doublet, and abandoned hiain to his

dark reflections; but at last he conquered, in a ly but still sorrowfully: "And yet everything was going on so smoothly! I had recovered my note; the

possession of the ten thousand crowns enabled me to conceal for the

present the ruined condition of my affairs; Mary did not appear

indifferent toout of the way, I was certain of

succeeding with her in the course of time I would in that case become

rich and powerful; her doould be sufficient to save me from poverty

and a huistrates of want of zeal? Thingsthan the

disappearance of Geroni the populace It was the public feeling that forced the bailiff to

make extraordinary efforts to discover what had become of him; it will be

the cause of my destruction! Can there be a mysterious impulse to this

unwonted excitele to

escape! Would it not be God hiht struck terror to the soul of Simon Turchi,