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He then asked Dorothea how she had ed to reach a place so far

re words told all that

she had previously related to Cardenio, hich Don Fernando and his

cohted that they wished the story had been longer;

so charly did Dorothea describe her misadventures When she had

finished Don Fernando recounted what had befallen him in the city after

he had found in Luscinda's bosom the paper in which she declared that she

was Cardenio's wife, and never could be his He said he meant to kill

her, and would have done so had he not been prevented by her parents, and

that he quitted the house full of rage and shae

himself when a more convenient opportunity should offer The next day he

learned that Luscinda had disappeared from her father's house, and that

no one could tell whither she had gone Finally, at the end of some

months he ascertained that she was in a convent and meant to remain there

all the rest of her life, if she were not to share it with Cardenio; and