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Agnes pointed to a garden adjoining the house. Renzo entered it,

and was immediately joined by the anxious and impatient Agnes.

They seated themselves opposite each other on two benches. The

events he described are already known to our reader, and we will

leave to his imagination the numerous exclamations of grief,

horror, surprise, and joy, that interrupted the progress of the

narrative every moment. The result, however, was an agreement to

settle all together at Bergamo, where Renzo had already an

advantageous engagement; when would depend on the pestilence and

other circumstances; Agnes was to remain where she was, until it

should be safe for her to return home; and in the interval she

should have regular information of all their movements.

He departed, with the additional consolation of having found one

so dear to him safe and well. He remained the rest of that day

and the following night with his friend, and on the morrow set

out for the country of his adoption.