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64 enjoyment in visiting all his early haunts not to desire a companion who would at least listen to the buoyant overflow of pleasant remembrances.

Whenever the scene of a narrative changes, it has been a custom, venerable from its antiquity, to leave the hero in some danger or dilemma. With all our respect for good old rules, we must here reverse the practice, and leave ours both in content and security, while we return to Italy and Francesca, whom we left to that drear absence whose passive loneliness is ever the lot of woman.