[Andivius Hedulio by Edward Lucas White]@TWC D-Link bookAndivius Hedulio CHAPTER IX 21/26
Then take the first crossroad to the Highroad to Tibur. From Tibur press on to Carseoli.
Prom there return to Villa Andivia as you judge best.
Provide for yourself thereafter as best you may. "Farewell." I recognized Vedia's handwriting.
I trusted her implicitly.
I was far more elated at her concern for me than I was depressed at my impending ruin. Somehow the fact that she had taken the trouble not only to warn me, but to think out for me all the details of a plan of at least temporary escape, the inference that she hoped, hoped against hope, that I might be somehow saved, heartened me amazingly; so that I was rather inspirited at the prospect of adventure than daunted by the shadow of inescapable doom. I gathered myself together, determined to take as much advantage as possible of Vedia's warning, and of the respite it afforded me.
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