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himself alone, and where there was nobody to see hily, lost in wonder at the adroitness of Ca of Leonela He reflected how convinced Anselmo would be

that he had a second Portia for a wife, and he looked forward anxiously

to ether over falsehood and truth the

ined

Leonela, as he told her, stanched her lady's blood, which was nothe wound with a

little wine she bound it up to the best of her skill, talking all the

ti else had been

said before, would have been enough to assure Anselmo that he had in

Camilla a model of purity To Leonela's words Ca in spirit, since she had not enough

at the time she had most need of it to rid herself of the life she so

much loathed She asked her attendant's advice as to whether or not she

ought to inform her beloved husband of all that had happened, but the

other bade her say nothing about it, as she would lay upon hieance on Lothario, which he could not do but at

great risk to hiive her

husband provocation to quarrel, but, on the contrary, to remove it as far

as possible from him