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"Return in peace and safety to your former attachment," said the

father. "And do you remember, my son, that in giving you this

companion, the church does it not to insure simply your temporal

happiness, but to prepare you both for happiness without end.

Thank Heaven that you have been brought to this state through

misery and affliction: your joy will be the more temperate and

durable. If God should grant you children, bring them up in his

fear, and in love to all men-for the rest you cannot greatly err.

And now, Lucy, has Renzo told you whom he has beheld in this

place?"

"Yes, father, he has told me."