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"Oh! you ugly raven!" replied he. "A raven! a raven!" resounded

from all sides. To the cries they added threats, so that,

finally, partly with his own legs, partly with the elbows of

others, he succeeded in obtaining a release from the squabble.

CHAPTER XVI.

"Fly, fly, honest man! Here is a convent, there is a church; this

way! this way!" was shouted to Renzo from every side. The advice

was not necessary; from the moment that he conceived the hope of

extricating himself from the talons of the police, he had

determined, if he succeeded, to depart immediately, not only from

the city, but the dukedom. "Because," thought he, "however they

may have procured it, they have my name on their books; and with

name and surname, they will take me again if they choose to do

so." As to an asylum, he was determined not to have recourse to

it, but in the last extremity. "Because," thought he, "if I can

be a bird of the woods, I will not be a bird of the cage." He

then determined to seek his cousin Bartolo in the territory of

Bergamo, who had often urged him to establish himself there; but

to find the road was the difficulty!