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had meanwhile been recreating at Orizaba, relieving his conscience by modifying the bloody decree of October 3, 1865, and making arrangements for departure, by settling his private affairs and shipping his effects on board the Austrian frigate Dandolo. But while the rumor spread at the close of October 1866, from Mexico to foreign parts, that he had already left Mexico, he was still meditating what

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