 causeless resentments, and the engagement I have laid myself under not to leave it, without apprizing him of my intention.
Upon the whole, I resolved to wait the issue of the new measures they have fallen upon. The dear Lady has declared herself in my favour. Such a frank declaration must soon be followed by important consequences.
THE third day after the arrival of her father and brothers from Urbino, I received the following Billet from the Marquis himself:
Chevalier Grandison,
WE are in the utmost distress. We cannot take upon us to forbid your stay at Bologna; but shall be obliged to you, if you will enable us to acquaint our daughter, that you are gone to England, or some far distant part. Wishing you happy, I am, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant.
To this I wrote as follows:
My Lord,
I Am excessively grieved for your distress. I make no hesitation to obey you. But as I am not conscious of having, in word or deed, offended you, or any one of a family to whom I owe infinite obligations;

let me hope, that I may be allowed a farewel visit to your Lordship, to your Lady, and to your three sons; that my departure may not appear like that of a criminal, instead of the parting that, from the knowledge I have of my own heart, as well as of your experienced goodness, may be claimed by your Lordship's
Ever obliged, and affectionate humble Servant, GRANDISON.
This request, I understood, occasioned warm debates. It was said to be a very bold one: But my dear Jeronymo insisted, that it was worthy of his Friend, his Deliverer, as he called me; and of an innocent man.
The result was, that I should be invited in form, to visit and take leave of the family: And two days were taken, that some others of the Urbino family might be present, to see a man, for the last time (and some of them for the first), who was thought, by his request, to have shewn a very extraordinary degree of intrepidity; and who, tho' a Protestant, was honoured with so great an interest in the heart of their Clementina.
The day before I was to make this formal visit (for such it was to be) I received the following Letter from my friend Jeronymo:
My dearest Grandison,
TAKE the particulars of the situation we are in here, that you may know what to expect▪ and how to act and comport yourself, to-morrow evening.
Your
