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 dazzle my audacious eyes. In my conternation I apprehended the fate of Acteon at leat, and drew back in alarm; meanwhile they lipped among the reeds, and hid themelves. Shortly thereafter I aw even wans acend high into the air: they oon vanihed from before my eyes. I now had time to reflect on my own foolih conduct; I acted like a madman, tore my coat, plucked my beard, and wept aloud, till the fury of my orrow unk gradually away into the tillnes of melancholy. I lunk in ilence to my cell, and took my way along the place whence the wans had rien on wing oppoite my reed cot; I there found the morning dew bruhed from the gras, I aw a trace in the wet and, which eemed to have been impreed by the elegant foot of Zoe: beide it lay a packet cloely rolled up, which I natched in hate. It proved, upon opening it, to be a woman’s glove of fine white ilk, which would have been too mall for any other but Zoe’s delicate hand. There fell out