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He then endeavoured to form some plan for the future; but all

other considerations were soon swallowed up in the necessity

which he was under of ascertaining the road; and to do this, he

was obliged to address himself to some one. He was reluctant to

name Bergamo, lest it might excite suspicion: why it should, he

knew not; but his mind was a prey to vague apprehensions of evil.

However, he could not do otherwise; and, as at Milan, he accosted

the first passenger whose appearance promised favourably.