myself between the thick branches till night promised to favour my flight!
"I descended from my asylum as soon as it was dark. A foot-path led me to a neighbouring village; and the darkness of night protected me on my retreat. Being animated with a more than common courage, I ventured to enter a cottage, exchanged my garments for a rural dress, dyed my face, and begged my way through the provinces of Spain and France to this peaceful spot. I lost, indeed, on my journey, a part of the jewels with which they had decorated me; yet I saved a sufficient quantity to purchase this little solitude, and to commence a little farm, which promised to afford me a frugal support for the remainder of my life?"
CHAPTER II.
" The above chapter, dearest Count, is a faithful, but brief, extract from that part of Elmira's history of which
