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We should have been obliged to live, had we remained at home; we

should have been obliged to live during this winter, upon my

little savings, and we can do the same here. There are curates

every where, and they can come shortly. Oh! what joy will it be

to walk together on this same road; to go to the borders of the

Adda, where I will point out to them the place where I embarked,

the woods through which I passed, the spot where I stood watching

for a boat."

He reached at last the village of his cousin; at its entrance, he

saw a very high house, with numerous windows, and perceived it to

be a silk manufactory; he entered, and amidst the noise of the

water and machinery loudly demanded, "if Bartolo Castagneri was

within?"

"Signor Bartolo? there he is."