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This lady was the younger daughter of a Sicilian nobleman, whose

avarice, or necessities, had devoted her to a convent To avoid the

threatened fate, she fled with the lover to whoed, and whose only fault, even in the eye of her

father, was inferiority of birth They were now on their way to the

coast, whence they designed to pass over to Italy, where the church

would confirm the bonds which their hearts had already formed There

the friends of the cavalier resided, and with them they expected to

find a secure retreat

The duke, as not e had subsided, suffered them to depart Relieved fro their late pursuer to the

anguish of defeat, and fruitless endeavour He was re dispatched two of his people in search of a house

where he ht obtain some relief, he proceeded slowly on his return

to the castle of Mazzini

It was not long ere he recollected a circumstance which, in the first