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an open casement , with her head bent down on the frame , fcildj ttd Re supposed , asleep . She was quite dead } and he lifted the bodythrough the window to Go 2 nia * who waited below , and , with his assistance , carried it to the Font , and laid it there * to mock Signior Lucio with the sight , irt the morning . '
Then , as soon as the yet smouldering fire would permit the search , the bereaved Count Oschiaro , almost dumb with grief , directed the operation among the ruins , mournfully calling out at intervals , * Ove se tu , Lucio ! Lucio !—Ove se tu f and no other words besides broke from his lips . Thb search was long in vain , till he himself , removing with his foot some fragments and ashes , which were strewn by the aide of a door , Which gave entrance from the vestibule to the lower
hall , fixed his sight on a human hand , parched and dust covered , projecting from beneath a cemented mass of marblfe . He beckoned to those about him , and covering his eyes with one hand , pointed with the other . With great labour the mass was raised ; there lay the crushed body . The count stooped , and kissed the closed hatid , convulsively sobbing , and opened it ; it had grasped , in death , a tress of hair , bound by a twisted silken thread . That mass of stone you yet see , it is marked with a crbss . Count Oschiaro turned away , and
during the few months he lingered , was never known to speak : but he signed and collected people about him , and leading them up the stream to the extremity of the garden , directed them td cut a trench , into which the waters might flow , and so leave their former course through the garden , and thus the Font was soon dried up . Then workman were employed to erect the humble cabin in which we sat , into that chamber Count Oschiaro entered , and never went out again , till he passed to heaven .
Thus I have given the substance of the tale : would that I could give it with the old man ' s passionate eloquence : for only so could I , or can I , hope it would interest a reader as it did me , and my far less impressible companion . Ten times the narrator bfoke off the tale , choked in his utterance , and with eyes streaming in teats . He was personally interested ; it was the recalling of his boyhood , and the incidents of that early life of his : the glow and the tremour alternately flashed and shook over him , as lbng sleeping impressions were again awakened . His voice , attuned by every emotion , was harmoniously eloquent ; and the lively and energetic manner in Which , starting from his seat , he described in gestures the Actions and events * made every thing he said and did a living picture , a reality , immediate and vivid . I had forgotten the ship , of the waiting boat I was oblivious . I remembered hot that we were on forbidden ground , that detection was certainly imprisonment , perhaps death , as spies . The old man was the first to allude to the truth of these affairs . Where
was Pietro Camiso ? Not there : he had probably returned to the boat . We bade adieu to the kind , the good old man , and departed . His last words , as we descended the steps , were , * Tasso * Tasso / at the same time pressing the volume between his hands , and holding it to my view . We called and looked for Pietro in the grounds , fttld among the ruins , then bent our bourse towards the boAt . I was so Absorbed in thought , recalling and pondering oyef the etifeneb fttid
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642 Autobiogr&phy of Pel . Vtiyuieii
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1833, page 642, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2622/page/58/
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