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102 at a lonely inn, where many suspicious appearances warned the traveller to be on his guard. They had afterwards, finding that their road was the same, travelled together.

"I cannot tell you," continued Guido, "the interest he took in my history, though, Heaven knows! I had little to tell him; and there was something in his habitually sad frame of mind, and a vein of eloquence, striking though gloomy, that harmonised with my own mood. When within scarce a day's journey of Paris, I observed he could scarce!y sit his horse; his illness increased rapidly; and it was with the greatest difficulty that we reached the city. When we arrived at the inn, I saw at once that so noisy a place was ill fitting for an invalid. Late as it was, I went to Bournonville's, and with his aid took a lodging in a house near his own, and engaged a sister of Margaretta's, to attend upon us. Thither was Richard Arden conveyed. For some time he was insensible; from that he awoke in a delirious state: the physician whom we summoned said he was in a high fever. All night Katerina and I watched alternately, though, I shame to say, I slept more than I watched; and, having first ascertained that there was no change, I came directly hither."

"I have few preparations to make, and but