Excerpt from Placide, Vol. 2 of 2: A Spanish Tale Marquis consented, and they accordingly sojourned there eight days more. Placide and Adolphus would rise every morning before the dawn of day, and wander over the most sequestered and the wildest places of that solitude - There, both seated on a rock, they would talk over with pleasure their sentiments and their heart rending misfortunes - Adol pbas shewed to Placide the first letter of Calista. Placide was very much struck with the solemn and mysterious tone of this letter, and the singularity of this ad venture.-he sympathised and' wept with Adolphus. For who can better than I, he would say, participate in the anguish of love without hope? And yet you en joy grentconsolation, -she writes to you, she loves you still. But I shall never see Donna Bianca again, - Calista lives, her heart is not changed, you are both free and heaven will yet unite you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.