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impetuous and airy temper threatened to involve you. Oft have I saved you from absolute perdition, and now leave you without a guide. Your Genius transmigrates to another world, but keep the lessons of foresight and moderation which he now gives, carefully stored in your memory, nor let any opportunity go by, without profiting by their wholesome practice."

At this interval Counts Giraumont and Selami, who had left us immediately after my uncle's wound had been dressed, entered the apartment, accompanied by a commissary and some police officers, to take my uncle's deposition, that he had come fairly by his death. He signed-a declaration to this, purport, and saved Fernandos from all criminal pursuit, which would otherwise have been commenced against him.

The commissary having withdrawn, Don Diego embraced us all, and gave his blessing to me and Adela. He added, in presence of all our friends, that he had made a will constituting me or the issue of my body, sole heirs to his estates in the district of Seville,