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They had travelled near half a league, when the savage features of the

country began to soften, and gradually changed to the picturesque

beauty of Sicilian scenery They now discovered at soentle eminence, crooods It was the

first human habitation they had seen since they e with fatigue, beheld it with

delight The captain and his men hastened towards it to make known

their distress, while Ferdinand and Julia slowly followed They

observed the men enter the villa, one of whom quickly returned to

acquaint them with the hospitable reception his comrades had received

Julia with difficulty reached the edifice, at the door of which she

was ent

countenance immediately interested her in his favor He welcoers with a benevolent politeness that dissolved at once every

unco which their situation had excited, and produced

an instantaneous easy confidence Through a light and elegant hall,

rising into a dome, supported by pillars of white nificent vestibule, which opened upon

a lawn Having seated them at a table spread with refreshments he left

them, and they surveyed, with surprise, the beauty of the adjacent

scene