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"He did not succeed. They remained confined for five months

before the trial took place, the result of which deprived them of

their fortune and condemned them to a perpetual exile from their

native country.

"They found a miserable asylum in the cottage in Germany, where I

discovered them. Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk,

for whom he and his family endured such unheard-of oppression, on

discovering that his deliverer was thus reduced to poverty and

ruin, became a traitor to good feeling and honour and had quitted

Italy with his daughter, insultingly sending Felix a pittance of

money to aid him, as he said, in some plan of future maintenance.