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But we, who have the facts in our hands, can affirm, that if Don

Roderick had no share in creating these misfortunes, he rejoiced

in them as if they had been his own work; and made them a subject

of merriment with his friends, and above all with Count Attilio,

who had been deterred from prosecuting his intended journey to

Milan by the account received of the disturbances there: but this

order from the police gave him to understand that things had

resumed their usual course. He then determined to depart

immediately, and, exhorting his cousin to persist in his

undertaking, and to surmount every obstacle, he promised to use

his efforts to rid him of the friar. Attilio had hardly taken his

departure, when Griso arrived, safe and sound, from Monza, and

gave in his report to his master of all he had been able to

collect.