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 necessaries, he and his master, as he called Ferdinand, retired to rest, after the fatigues of this eventful day.

CHAP. V.VI. [sic]

next morning the farmer arrived with a young woman, and necessary people to attend the dead: The Count was with Ferdinand, and appeared as the heir of the deceased, who from a long and habitual melancholy had secluded himself, until finding his end approaching he had sent for his relations, who on their arrival found he had expired that very morning. This account was given and believed, because Francis had been previously prepared to corroborate it. The