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eyes, and thanked heaven for having preferved the
life of Eftephania. But, a moment after, as if he
had been afraid of giving thanks unfeafonably, he
aficed in what manner the innocence of his wife
had been proved. “ Signior, (faid I) no body
but you ever doubted it : her conduct was always
irreproachable. I will difabufe you : you mud
Jtnow, that you was impofed upon by Don Hu_
berto.” I then recounted the whole of that re¬
lation’s perfidy, the vengeance I had taken, and
the conftffion he made at hii death. My father
■was not Co much pleafed with the recovery of his
freedom, as with the news I told. In the excefs of
his joy, he began to embrace me again, with ten-
dernefs and tranfport, and could not help expref-
fing his fatisfadHon with regard to my condudl.”
Come, my fon, (faid he) let us haften -to Ante-
quera. I burn with impatience, to throw myfelf
at the feet of a wife whom I have fo unworthily
treated. Since you have made me acquainted with
my own injustice, my heart is torn with re-
morfe !”
I was too eager to bring together perfons who
were fo dear to me, to retard the happy moment:
I quitted the privateer, and with my ihare of the
priae we had taken, bought two mules at Adra, my
father being unwilling to expofe hirafelf again to
the dangers of the fea. He had leifure enough on
the road to relate his adventures, which l heard
with as greedy attention as that which the prince of
Ithaca paid to thofe of the king his father. In
fhort, after having travelled feveral days, we gain¬
ed the foot of a mountain, in the neighbourhood
of Antequera, where we halted ; and refolving to
go home privately, did not enter the town till
midnight.
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