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He then proposed that he himself should appear in the equipage of one of the travellingbook31 Savoyards who stroll about Europe amusing ignorantbook71 people with the effects of a magic lanthorn and in that disguise endeavour to obtain admittance from the servants of Trebasi among whom he might make such inquiries as would deliver Melvil from his present uneasy suspense. The Major considering the risk he must have run in being detected thought himself cheaply quit for this moderate discipline though he was really concerned for his friend Renaldo who understanding the particulars of the adventure determined as the last effort to ride round the castle in the open day on pretence of taking the air when peradventure the Countess would see him from the place of her confinement and favour him with some mark or token of her being alive.... read all
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