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'Ye are to know, Signors, that the Lady Laurentini had for some months

shewn syination Her

mood was very unequal; sometimes she was sunk in calm melancholy, and,

at others, as I have been told, she betrayed all the syht in the month of October, after she had

recovered froain into her

usual melancholy, that she retired alone to her chamber, and forbade all

interruption It was the chanors,

where we had the affray, last night From that hour, she was seen no

more' 'How! seen no more!' said Bertolini, 'was not her body found in the

chamber?' 'Were her reether 'Never!' replied Montoni

'What reasons were there to suppose she destroyed herself, then?' said

Bertolini--'Aye, what reasons?' said Verezzi--'How happened it, that

her reh she killed herself, she could

not bury herself' Montoni looked indignantly at Verezzi, who began to

apologize 'Your pardon, Signor,' said he: 'I did not consider, that the

lady was your relative, when I spoke of her so lightly'

Montoni accepted the apology 'But the Signor will oblige us with the reasons, which urged him to

believe, that the lady committed suicide' 'Those I will explain hereafter,' said Montoni: 'at present let me

relate a oes no