what I think more agreeable to your own feelings than mine, for we differ on particular subjects, and I, in your case, should act otherwise than you do: But—I have no more to say. You may stay a week, or depart to-morrow; consult your own convenience, and do as you please." He left the room as he ended these words, without waiting for an answer.
Ferdinand stood some moments in astonishment; he would have given the world to have known who this extraordinary man was, and to have penetrated into the mystery that enveloped him; but he saw no prospect of gaining the smallest intelligence to gratify his curiosity by remaining there, and after the civil dismission he had received, he could feel no inclination to a longer residence—being left alone, a thing not usual since he had been in the house; he went into the next apartment, which had a door opening into, what had once been a very spacious garden, though now entirely overgrown with weeds; a very narrow path-way, where they seemed to be
