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Ferdinand, who her,

observed her situation with extreme distress When she recovered, he

informed her that a servant of Hippolitus, sent no doubt by his lord

to enquire concerning Julia, had been lately seen by one of the

hbourhood of the castle Fro, but that his life had been

despaired of; and he was still confined, by dangerous wounds, in an

obscure town on the coast of Italy The man had steadily refused to

that the ustin, whither he pursued his daughter, the

man disappeared froh for Julia to know that Hippolitus lived; her fears of

detection, and her scruples concerning Ferdinand, instantly vanished;

she thought only of escape--and the means which had lately appeared so

forerous in

execution, now seemed easy, certain, and almost accoreed, that in

atte to bribe a servant of the er too imminent, yet it appeared scarcely

practicable to succeed in their sche this After

much consideration, they determined to entrust their secret to no

person but to madame Ferdinand was to contrive to conceal hiht in the church, bethich and the monastery

were several doors of communication When the inhabitants of the abbey

were sunk in repose, Julia ht without difficulty pass to the