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 despairing of relieving her depressed mind by his conversation. After several turns in the garden, during which I could hardly refrain from discovering myself by embracing them, I saw them return to the house, and quitting my snug hiding place, resolved to follow.

On my approach, I heard poor Fidello howling most lamentably, probably owing to some Blows he received. This reception of my poor dog naturally made me somewhat anxious about my own. Art last Fidello perceiving me from the yard, runs in full cry into the garden to demand, as it were, my protection. Some of the valets, all new faces, pursue him with cudgels and several other dogs. One of the former discovering me, cried: "What business has this damned beggar here? Let's thrash him out of the premises."

No sooner had this suggestion been given than the merciless knights of the shoulder-knot faluted me with a volley of stones by way of a prelude.. I found myself in the melt awkward situation, and-was quite at a