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 prince of the iland?’ With uch thoughts did our depairing lover torture himelf day after day; but he might have pared himelf thee unpleaant reflections, if he had been enible to the violence of his paion, and had known what miracles enthuiam is ued to perform. Intinct immediately produced the reolution, which calm conideration could never have brought to maturity. After he had reduced his property to the dimenions of his pocket-book, he addled his hore, rode out at the back gate, in order to avoid the long-winded farewell of his mother, croed the bounds of his country at a brik trot, jut as if he had intended to reach the Cyclades without baiting on the road. He luckily recollected the way father Benno had taken; and arrived, as he had done, afe and ound in the harbour of Naxos, after having utained many hardhips on the voyage from Venice.

He jumped nimbly on hore, and felt a ecret pleaure on treading the earth that