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relieves weariness of spirit Such was the life I led in my parents'

house and if I have depicted it thus minutely, it is not out of

ostentation, or to let you know that I am rich, but that you may see hoithout any fault of mine, I have fallen from the happy condition I have

described, to the misery I a this busy life, in a retireht coht by any except the servants of the

house (for when I went to Mass it was so early in the , and I was

so closely attended by my mother and the women of the household, and so

thickly veiled and so shy, that round than I

trod on), in spite of all this, the eyes of love, or idleness, , that the lynx's cannot rival, discovered me, with the

help of the assiduity of Don Fernando; for that is the naer son of the duke I told of"

The moment the speaker ed colour and broke into a sweat, with such signs of emotion that

the curate and the barber, who observed it, feared that one of theupon hiitation and reirl with fixed attention, for he began to suspect who she was

She, however, without noticing the excite her

story, went on to say: