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should fall into his hands after her flight,
feeling certain that in such event he would put
her to death.
So while the faithful nurse was thus taking
counsel with herself, she suddenly hit upon a
fresh scheme, which was what I will now tell
you. In the chamber of the dead lady there was
a fair cassone, or clothes-chest, magnificently

carved, in which Doralice kept her richest
dresses and her most precious jewels, and this
wardrobe the nurse alone could open. So she
removed from it by stealth all the robes and
the ornaments that were therein, and
bestowed them elsewhere, placing in it a good
store of a certain liquor which had such great

virtue, that whosoever took a spoonful of it,
or even less, could live for a long time without
further nourishment. Then, having called
Doralice, she shut her therein, and bade her
remain in hiding until such time as God should
send her better for tune, and her father be
delivered from the bestial mood which had
come upon him. The maiden, obedient to the
good old woman's command, did all that was

told her; and the father, still set upon his
accursed design, and ______

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