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Tome time, out of decency : in the mean time, Colifii* chini continued hisaddreffes, and his pallion, far from .-abating, Teemed to inc.reafe daily. .The poor young man was not very well provided with cafh ; I perceived it, and he no longer wanted money : for, bc- -fidts that I was almoft twice his age, I remembered that I had laiiL the men under contribution & my youth ; and I looked upon what I now did, as a re- flitution that acquitted my confcicnce. We waited, as patiently as toe could, for the expiration of the time preferibed by cudom, for women to remain in a date of widowhood ; and then, went to the altar, where we mutually bound ourfclves in the indilfoluble ties of wedlock : we afterwards retired to my caftle, where, I may fay, we lived two years, not fo much • like htdband and wife, as like two render lovers. But, alas ! we were not dedined to be long happy in one another : a fatal pleuriiy robbed me of my dear vColifichini.”
Here I interrupted my mother, crying, “ How ! madam, your third hulband dead too ! You mull certainly be a very dangerous tenement.” “ What could I do, Ton ? (anfwercd Lucinda) was it in my .power to prolong the oa\s that heaven had numbered Pill have loll three huibands, I could not help it. Two of them I regretted very much : he for whom I had the lead regard was the attorney ; as I married him out Of intrred, I eafily confolcd myfcff for his death. But (added flic) to return to Colifi- . chini, I mud tell you, that a few months after his de~ ccale, having a mind to go and fee, with my own eyes, a country-houfe near Palermo, which he had . alligned to me as a jointure, in our cor.tra£l of marriage, I embatked with my daughter for Sicily; but we were taken in our pafTage by the veffels of the Dey of Algicr, and conducted into this city. Happily for us you chanced to be on the fpot, where w e were put up to falc, otherwife we might have fallen • into the hands of lome b.arbarous.maltcr^ who would
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