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IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE NOVEL OF "THE ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY"

"It is coeneral and a

castle without its castellan, and I say that a young married woman looks

still worse without her husband unless there are very good reasons for

it I find myself so ill at ease without you, and so incapable of

enduring this separation, that unless you return quickly I shall have to

go for relief to my parents' house, even if I leave yours without a

protector; for the one you left me, if indeed he deserved that title,

has, I think, ard to his own pleasure than to what concerns you:

as you are possessed of discern I should say athered that Lothario had

already begun his task and that Camilla hted beyond ence he

sent word to her not to leave his house on any account, as he would very

shortly return Camilla was astonished at Anselreater perplexity than before, for she neither dared to reo to her parents'; for in re she was opposing her husband's commands

Finally she decided upon as the worse course for her, to re not to fly froive food for gossip to her servants; and she now began to regret having

written as she had to her husband, fearing he htness which had impelled him to lay aside

the respect he owed her; but confident of her rectitude she put her trust

in God and in her own virtuous intentions, hich she hoped to resist

in silence all the solicitations of Lothario, without saying anything to

her husband so as not to involve hian to consider how to excuse Lothario to Anselmo when he should

ask her what it was that induced her to write that letter With these

resolutions, more honourable than judicious or effectual, she re to Lothario, who pressed his suit so strenuously