This unexpected question quite disconcerted him, he hung his head, wept, and abruptly left me, without reply. I returned to the villa, where my servants, who knew not what was become of me, received me with great Joy. Many reports had been circulated owing to my disappearance, and Don Pedro's absence still farther served to magnify them. I did not then take any particular notice of the circumstance of Pedro's being arrived only a few hours before me, which he did not mention. But all this showed a settled plan, from which I might have derived great light on the whole business, had I not been overwhelmed with astonishment and distraction.
CHAP. VI.
I spent some weeks, in studying the writings I had brought with me from the forest. But they were written in so mystic and obscure a style, that I had much ado to make out a few ideas of the whole; yet so sublime were these, that I was quite charmed
