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situation--in an ar the recesses of wild and solitarywhose distant

skirts were scattered towns, and cities, whither wealthy travellers were

continually passing--this appeared to be the situation of all others

most suited for the success of scheht, that Montoni was become a captain of robbers His

character also, unprincipled, dauntless, cruel and enterprising, see in the tuer to pity and to fear; his

very courage was a sort of animal ferocity; not the noble iainst the oppressor, in the

cause of the oppressed; but a constitutional hardiness of nerve, that

cannot feel, and that, therefore, cannot fear

Emily's supposition, however natural, was in part erroneous, for she was

a stranger to the state of this country and to the circumstances, under

which its frequent ere partly conducted The revenues of the , at that ti ar the short periods, which the turbulent

habits both of the governments and the people permitted to pass in

peace, an order of e, and but faintly

described in the history of their own Of the soldiers, disbanded at

the end of every war, few returned to the safe, but unprofitable

occupations, then usual in peace Soled with armies, which still kept the field