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 garlick for this month to come! As I pass along the Prado, I shall be taken for a walking omelet, or some large onion running to seed!"

"I confess, my poor count," replied Lorenzo, "that your service has been attended with danger; yet am I so far from supposing it to be past all endurance; that I shall probably solicit you to carry on your amours still further."

"From that petition I conclude, that the little Antonia has made some impression upon you."

"I cannot express to you how much I am charmed with her. Since my father's death, my uncle the duke de Medina has signified to me his wishes to see me married; I have till now eluded his hints, and refused to understand them; but what I have seen this evening"

"Well, what have you seen this evening? Why surely, Don Lorenzo, you cannot be mad enough to think of making a wife out of this grand-daughter of