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Cahed at her maid's alphabet, and perceived her to be more

experienced in love affairs than she said, which she ades with a young ood birth of

the saht prove

the ue had

gone beyond words, and she with little shame and much effrontery said it

had; for certain it is that ladies' imprudences make servants shameless,

hen they see theirastray the known All that Ca about her doings to him whom she

called her lover, and to conduct her own affairs secretly lest they

should coe of Anselmo or of Lothario Leonela said she

would, but kept her word in such a way that she confirh her means; for this

abandoned and bold Leonela, as soon as she perceived that her mistress's

demeanour was not what it ont to be, had the audacity to introduce

her lover into the house, confident that even if her mistress saw him she

would not dare to expose hi others; they make theed to hide their laxities and depravities; as was

the case with Cah she perceived, not once but many times,

that Leonela ith her lover in some room of the house, not only did

not dare to chide her, but afforded her opportunities for concealing him

and removed all difficulties, lest he should be seen by her husband She

was unable, however, to prevent hi seen on one occasion, as

he sallied forth at daybreak, by Lothario, who, not knoho he was,

at first took him for a spectre; but, as soon as he saw hi his face with his cloak and concealing himself carefully and

cautiously, he rejected this foolish idea, and adopted another, which

would have been the ruin of all had not Camilla found a remedy It did

not occur to Lothario that thisat such an

untimely hour from Anselmo's house could have entered it on Leonela's

account, nor did he even reht was that as Ca with him, so

she had been with another; for this further penalty the erring wos with it, that her honour is distrusted even by him to whose