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lying open, and that the greater part of her jeere gone; and now he

becarace, and that Leonela was not the cause of

histo dress himself

completely, he repaired, sad at heart and dejected, to his friend

Lothario to make known his sorrow to him; but when he failed to find him

and the servants reported that he had been absent froht and had taken with hi his senses; and toto his own

house he found it deserted and e in it He knew not what to think, or say, or do, and

his reason see him little by little He reviewed his

position, and saw himself in a moment left without wife, friend, or

servants, abandoned, he felt, by the heaven above him, and more than all

robbed of his honour, for in Ca reflection he resolved at last to go to his friend's village,

where he had been staying when he afforded opportunities for the

contrivance of this complication of misfortune He locked the doors of

his house, mounted his horse, and with a broken spirit set out on his

journey; but he had hardly gone half-hen, harassed by his

reflections, he had to dismount and tie his horse to a tree, at the foot

of which he threw hihs; and

there he rehtfall, when he observed aon horseback fro him, he

asked as the news in Florence