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Vittoria

CHAPTER IX
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is offended that I do not allow my messenger to give my address; but I must not only be hidden, I must have peace, and forget you all until I have done my task.Addio.We have both changed names.

I am the same.

Can I think that you are?
Addio, dear friend.
'VITTORIA.' Lieutenant Pierson read again and again the letter of her whom he had loved in England, to get new lights from it, as lovers do when they have lost the power to take single impressions.

He was the bearer of a verbal despatch from the commandant in Milan to the Marshal in Verona.

At that period great favour was shown to Englishmen in the Austrian service, and the lieutenant's uncle being a General of distinction, he had a sort of semi-attachment to the Marshal's staff, and was hurried to and fro, for the purpose of keeping him out of duelling scrapes, as many of his friendlier comrades surmised.


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