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deep melancholy, and was gone to travel for the recovery of his health.

The last inquiry afforded no other information than that he was abroad. I had also set on foot a diligent search through all the neighbouring convents to procure intelligence of my wife, curse on the name! but all proved abortive; yet neither time, nor despair, caused any revolution in my sentiments; I loved and hated to excess."