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*i* The ADVENTURES of
creature, to receive this billet. What will Don
Carton think of it ? and what muft I believe f.
Your conduft gives mecaufe to dirtruft your fide¬
lity ; and may make him fufpeft that I am
pleafed with his partion. Alas ! perhaps, he ima¬
gines at this inftant, that I perufe, with pleafure,
the charaders which he has wrote. You fee to
what ftiame you have expofed my pride.” “ O
not at all madam, (replied the maid) he can en>
terrain no fuch thoughts; and, fuppofe he did,
he rtiall not preferve them long. I will tell him,
when next I fee him, that I have (hewn his let¬
ter to you ; that you looked at it with indifference ;
and, in fhort, without reading it. tore it with the
moft mortifying contempt.” “ You may fafely
fwear that I have not read it, (faid Donna Helena.)
I (hould be at a lofs, if obliged, to repeat two
fingle words of it.” Don George’s daughter was ;
not contented with talking in.this manner; (he j
tore my billet, and forbid her woman to talk to I
me for the future.
As f promifed to play the gallant no more at j
my windows, fince the fight of me gave offence, i
1 kept them (hut feveral days, to render my obe¬
dience more affedling ; but to fupply thofe looks ij
of which I was abridged, I prepared new fere-
nades for my cruel Helen. One night X repaired i
under her balcony with 'muftcians, and the guitam s ,
were already (truck up, when a cavalier came
(word in hand, and difturbed the concert, laying (
about him at a furious rate among the performers, j
who immediately betook themfelves to flight. The
rage that animated that bold intruder, awaked
mine: 1 advanced to punifh him, and an ob- ;
flinate combat began. Donna Helena and her at-