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caftle, where he lived near’fifteen years after Blanch’s death, and had the comfort before he died, of feeing Portia fettled : fhe married Don Jerome dc Silva, and I am the only fruit of that marriage. This (added the widow of Don Pedro de Pinares) is the hiftory of my family, and a faithful account of the misfortunes reprefented in that picture, which my grand- ' father, Lcontio, ordered to be drawn as a monument
• of that fatal adventure to his pofterity.
C H A P. V.
I The behaviour of Aurora de Gufuian at Salamanca.
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) RTIZ, her companions, and I, having heard
• Vy this relation, withdrew, and left Aurora with Elvira in the hall, where they fpent the reft of the day
t in converfation. Far from being tired with one an- i, other, next day when we fet out, they were as much :- affetted at parting as two friends who have long lived i- agreeably together.
e At la ft we arrived, without meeting any bad acci- d dent, at Salamanca *, where we immediately took a d houfe ready fumiftied, and dame Ortiz,, as we had >e concerted it, affumed the name of Donna Kimcna de d Gufman. She had been too long a duenna not to be fs a good a£lrefs ; accordingly, going out one morning i. with Aurora, a waiting maid, and valet, fhe repaired e- to a houfe where lodgings were let, and where we e- ; underftood Pacheco ufually lived. Having afked if 'di they had an apartment to be let, they anfwered in the ill affirmative, and (hewed her into one pretty hand- at fovnely furnifhed, which (he hired immediately, giv- b- ing earned; to the landlady, and telling her, that it he was'defigned for one of her nephews who was com* =s,
1a- * Salamanca is one of the largeft cities in Spain, fi
ne tuated on the banks of the river Tonnes, in the king- th dom of Leon, and famous for its univerfuy.
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