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 shock?—Ah! that the powers of language should not be competent to paint this interesting scene! I turn despondent from the baffling task, and leave it to the man of sensibility! Ah sensibility! sensibility! Thy yearning throbs alone can express the grand and sublime shades of this more than magic picture! CHAP. XV.XIV. [sic]

were now disagreeably roused from our trance, by a violent knocking at the door and the cry of, "Open! open! in the name of the Serene Republic!" I staggered forth to obey the call, and had no sooner with a tremulous motion, pulled back the spring of the lock, than an officer with the surgeon and a strong detachment of soldiers entered the house. The surgeon, by virtue of his oath, had gone to the pretor of the senate to report the matter, and the vigilant magistrate had given orders to the armed force to immediately bring the parties before