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Calderon The Courtier

CHAPTER III
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Calderon, hear you that ?--in vain! Why wert thou not by?
Thy arts never fail, my friend! She was living with an old relation, or governante.

The old relation died suddenly--I took advantage of her loneliness--I entered her house at night.

By St.Jago, her virtue baffled and defeated me.

The next morning she was gone; nor could my researches discover her, until, at the convent of St.Mary, I recognised the lost actress in the young novice.

She has fled to the convent to be true to Fonseca; she must fly from the convent to bless the prince.


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