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'The Apennines!' said Eerly, 'O! then I have little to hope!

' 'That is the very place, ma'am But cheer up, and do not take it so et ready in, and how

inor is Holy St Mark! I hear the oars on the canal;

and now they co at the steps below;

it is the gondola, sure enough'

Annette hastened froht, as fast as her tree in her situation could possibly be for the worse She

had scarcely thrown her books and clothes into her travelling

trunk, when, receiving a second su-roo his wife

for delay He went out, soon after, to give some further orders to his

people, and Emily then enquired the occasion of this hasty journey; but

her aunt appeared to be as ignorant as herself, and to undertake the

journey with th eni,

was of the party Soondolieri dashed their oars in the water, and put off from the steps

of the portico, felt like a crihter, when they ehter still, when they ski stopped to take up Count Morano

The da began to tint the horizon, and to break upon the shores of

the Adriatic Emily did not venture to ask any questions of Montoni, who

sat, for soloomy silence, and then rolled himself up in his

cloak, as if to sleep, while Madame Montoni did the same; but Emily, who