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vanni's modest Deportment, compassionately answered, that he should be welcome to the Protection of his House which joined to the Church, and there he would be out of the Way of the merciless Officers. During this Concealment, a Country Gentleman of Perugia came upon a Visit to the Canon's House, who, wanting a Servant, and seeing Giovanni a genteel young Fellow, made her good Offers, which she was very ready to embrace; and at her Departure told the Canon that she was Son to one Peter Vizzani, a Carpenter, who had removed to Rome from the Milanese. Whatever was the Matter, Giovanni quickly grew out of Fancy with her Service, and in a Letter to her Mother, containing her whole History, she acquainted her, that, for some particular and good Reasons, she

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