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50 his way to fetch a priest, already gained over by the enterprising professor of curls and carbines. But and genius, though it cannot communicate itself, can communicate its example. Francisco saw his companion after he had assumed the picturesque costume which was to annihilate the young Englishwoman's peace of mind. In the fulness of his glory he folded his cloak round him, suffered the white plumes to droop over his curls, polished and perfumed with the most fragrant oils, and, turning from his mirror to his friend, said, "I think my chance is a very tolerable one: instead of running away with the lady, I might have left it to her own good taste to have run away with me." Giulio was not the first "talented individual " whose vanity has been, primarily, an inconvenience to others, and then to himself. Called hastily away for a moment, Francisco tried on the cloak and plumed hat his comrade had left on a bench beside: he folded his arms, and walked to the glass—"I am sure I look quite as well as he does." To this conviction succeeded the doubt, why should Giulio marry