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live in lefs time than two hours, although he had af* lured us that it was not fur from the wood.
Every body in the houfe being a-bed, wc knocked loudly at the door ; upon w hich the landlord and his wife got up in a hurry, and were not forry to lee their » reft interrupted by the arrival of a»; equipage, which they thought would have fpent more money than it did. The whole inn was lighted in a moment: Don j Alphonfo and the illuftrious fon of Lucinda offered W their hands to help the cavalier and ljdy out of the -ebaife, and even ferved them as ulhers to the chamber whither the landlord conduced them. There a great many compliments parted ; and we were not a little nftonifhcd when we underftood that it was the Count de Polan himfclf and his daughter Seiaphina whom wc had delivered. It is impoflible to dcfe.ribe the furprizeof that lady, as well as Don Alphonfo, when j; they recolleftcd each other. The count took no notice of it, fo much was he otherwife cngroiT- d, in recounting to ns in whatjnanner the robbers had attacked him ; and how they had Ici/cd his daughter and him, after having killed his poftilion, page and valet de chatnbre: lie ended with telling us, that he had a deep fenfe of the obligation he lay under to us ; and | if we would conic to him at Toledo, where he Ihould be in a month, we ihould fee whether or not he was ungrateful.
Nor did the daughter of this nobleman forget to thank us for her happy deliverance : and as Raphael and I imagined that wc ihould plcafe Don Alphonfo by giving him an opportunity of talking a moment in private with that young widow, we gratified his defire, by amufing the Count de Polan. “ hair Seiaphina (faid Alphonfo to the lady,'in a low voice) I will no longer complain of the fate that compels me to live like a man banifhed from civil fociety, fmee I j have been fo happy as to contribute to the important fervicc which you have received.” “ How ! (anfwer- ^dfhe, fighing) is it you who have faved my life and
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