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M O R A L F. Z, hv fuch dffcourfe, fecuved the pui fc of the old man, who came and rejoined us ; and finding his daughter and me engaged in mutual compliments, interrupted our converfalion, by tilling Floretitina of the obligation he lay under to me ; and, on that f:ore, made me profeffions which convinced me of his gratitude. I laid hold of fuch a favourable difpolition, and told the citizen, that the moll fenfible mark of acknowledgment he could (hew, would be to hallen my marriage with h s daughter. He yielded with a g<voi grace to my impatience, alluring me, that in three da\s at I art he 11 I fhould be Florentina’s hufband, and that indead. of fix thoufand ducats, which he had promifed for her bower, he would give me ten, as a proof of his being deeply affeded with the Icrvicc I had done him.
Moralcz and I, therefore, lived witli the honed man Jerome de Moyadas, kindly treated, and in the agreeable expedition of ten thoufand ducats, with which we oropofed to mike a hidden decampment . from Merida, Our joy, however, was checked by
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