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Anxiety to be well retarded his recovery; but at length he was able to

creep abroad He firstto

be in search of so sneer on the creature's face

convinced hist

his furniture, or get any information out of him as to what had beco it had been stolen, a

surprise which Cosmo saw at once to be counterfeited; while, at the same

time, he fancied that the old wretch was not at all anxious to have it

enuine Full of distress, which he concealed as well as he

could, he made many searches, but with no avail Of course he could

ask no questions; but he kept his ears awake for any reht set him in a direction of search He never went out without a

short heavy haht shatter the ht of his lost treasure, if ever

that blessed ain,

was now a thought altogether secondary, and postponed to the achievement

of her freedohost, pale

and haggard; gnawed ever at the heart, by the thought of what she --all from his fault