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 very recesses of his heart seemed to be in emotion."

"I promise you, Madonna, to keep your husband's communication respecting his family, as a secret buried in my heart. As to his going away so suddenly, I am in a still greater uncertainty than yourself. No doubt, you know the reports that are spread respecting your marriage, and that your husband gave you his hand in defiance of a certain mystic Cabal?"

"You astonish me, Sennor."

"There's no occasion, Sennora; I, too, am One of the members of that formidable society."

"Gracious Heaven protect us then!"

"Away with such fears, Madonna! I ans perhaps more the victim of that Cabal than yourself, and that without the least prospect of the remedy that you have taken for your safety."

"I understand you perfectly, Sennor, and hope you will be our friend."

From this moment I observed, that my candor had done me more harm than good, and