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 but pallid. The Marquis Antaldi, though by no means pleased with his mysterious guest; yet bowed respectfully at his approach. He passed out of sight towards a lonely pavilion, here he found the Douna Isidora and thus he addressed her—"Ah, lovely Isidora! though every eye averts itself in terror and disgust at my approach, yet yours will beam more mildly on me, when you recollect what I have achieved in far more distant climes, to prove the love and high wrought interest you have here;" saying this, he placed his hand upon his heart, and bent quite lowly before the Donna. Isidora, whose recent obligations to this man, would admit of no equivocal reply immediately added, "Only clear one mystery : think how painful it is to hear the man, whose life is honour and whose practice is benevolence, accused of dealing with the powers of darkness." The stranger's countenance at this address became more gastly; but he said in a tone of voice suddenly assumed, “I can scarcely think you credit this." You know I strive to cast aside every injurious thought where you are concerned," added the Donna; yet your personal knowledge of many things for ceturies past; your instantaneous recovery of my long lost papers from India in one short day; your presence every where when my presence or my interest need a champion, fill my soul with superhuman awe; mingled with a gratitude, I find no words to express sufficiently: but the perpetual secrecy to which you bind me puzzles and alarms me:" and here the Donna waved her hand in a melancholy and forbiding manner—the stranger bent before her, and slowly retiring as he uttered—“Farewell, ungrateful Isidora! mystery and guilt are then you think inseparable—a long farewell."

Hear me, hear me, thou unknown and awful being " hastily exclaimed Isidora, when she found