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On counting over this, Du Pont found, that it would be more than

sufficient to carry them all to France, where he now deterence of his regih he had as rity of

Ludovico, as his sht of coe; nor, perhaps, had

he resolution enough to deny hiht derive from her presence

He now consulted the the sea-port, to which they should

direct their way, and Ludovico, better inforhorn was the nearest port of consequence, which

Du Pont knew also to be the most likely of any in Italy to assist

their plan, since fro Thither, therefore, it was deter purchased a little straw hat, such as orn by the

peasant girls of Tuscany, and some other little necessary equiped their tired horses for

others better able to carry the over the h this

roan to descend into the vale

of Arno

And here Emily beheld all the charms of sylvan and pastoral

landscape united, adorned with the elegant villas of the Florentine

nobles, and diversified with the various riches of cultivation How

vivid the shrubs, that embowered the slopes, with the woods, that

stretched a the ant the outline of these waving Apennines, now softening froions exhibited! At a distance, in the