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 Jago now embraced me, and left me with great emotion.

As soon as I had put on my clothes, a stranger entered the apartment, who signified to me, that he had received orders to conduct me out of the cavern. I followed him, in deep meditation, from one vault to another, through the garden and the park. He attended me as far as the hovel in the forest, and then disappeared. I found my horse, plentifully provided with fodder, and fastened to the same place where I had left it. I then mounted, and soon reached my father's villa.

A thousand strange thoughts occupied my mind on my way home. The adventure with Rosalia deeply afflicted-me.—"What," said I to myself, "can there be a destiny more cruel than to be obliged to quit a charming bride after the first embraces, even without being permitted to bid her adieu, or without any other memento than the image of her heavenly charms burning in my soul! Oh! how infinitely cruel is the very first proof of the friendship of that marvellous Cabal."