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"But while I was in the city, uncertain what to do, as I could not find

Don Fernando, I heard notice given by the public crier offering a great

reward to anyone who should find e

and of the very dress I wore; and I heard it said that the lad who ca that cut ood nah that I should lose it by ht, but they must add hom I

had fled, and that one so much beneath me and so unworthy of my

consideration The instant I heard the notice I quitted the city within his fidelity to ht, for fear of discovery, we entered the most thickly

wooded part of these mountains But, as is commonly said, one evil calls

up another and the end of one reater, and so it proved in my case; for my worthy servant,

until then so faithful and trusty when he found me in this lonely spot,

ht to take

advantage of the opportunity which these solitudes seemed to present him,

and with little shaan to

that I replied to the effrontery of his

proposals with justly severe language, he laid aside the entreaties which

he had ean to use violence

"But just Heaven, that seldoood intentions,