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7 overlooked, and whiehwhich [sic] his patient Donna Leonora de Casafonda had given him in ehargecharge [sic] to deliver as direeteddirected [sic]. ‘Well, well,’ eriedcried [sic] he, ‘let it pass; there eancan [sic] be no mystery in this harmless scrawl; a letter of advieeadvice [sic] to some friend or relation; I’ll not break the seal; let the fathers read it, if they like, ’twill prove the truth of my deposition, and help out my exeuseexcuse [sic] for the hurry of my errand, and the unfortunate adventure of a damned refraetoryrefractory [sic] mule.’{longdash}}And now no sooner had the reeolleetionsrecollections [sic] of the wayward mule erossedcrossed [sic] the brain of poor NieolasNicolas [sic] Pedrosa, than he began to blast her at a furious rate. ‘The seratehesscratches [sic] and the seabscab [sic] to boot confound thy seurvyscurvy [sic] hide,’ quoth he ‘thou ass-begotten bastard, whom Noah never let into his ark! The vengeance take thee, for an unereateduncreated [sic] barren beast of promiseuouspromiscuous [sic] generation! What devil’s erotehetcrotchet [sic] got into thy eapricouscapricious [sic] noddle, that thou shouldst fall in love with that Nazaritish bell, and run bellowing like LueiferLucifer [sic] into the midst of those barefooted vermine, who were more malieiousmalicious [sic] and more greedy than the loeustslocusts [sic] of Egypt? Oh! that I had the art of Simon Magus to eonjureconjure [sic] thee into this dungeon in my stead; but I warrant thou art ehewingchewing [sic] thy barley straw without any pity for thy wretehedwretched [sic] master, whom thy jade’s triekstricks [sic] have delivered bodily to the tormentors, to be sport for these uneireumciseduncircumcised [sic] sons of Dagon’ And now the eellcell [sic] door opened, when a savage figure entered, carrying a huge pareelparcel [sic] of elankingclanking [sic] fetters, with a eollarcollar [sic] of iron, whiehwhich [sic] he put round the neekneck [sic] of poor Pedrosa, telling him, with a truly diabolical grin, whilst he was