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As to Don Abbondio, he exhibited the same apprehension of the

marriage as before; the mention of which conjured up to his

affrighted fancy the dreaded Don Roderick and his train on the

one side, and the almost equally feared cardinal and his

arguments on the other.

We will now transport the reader for a few moments to Milan. Some

days after the visit of Renzo to the lazaretto, Lucy left it with

the good widow. A general quarantine having been ordered, they

passed the period of it together in the house of the latter. The

time was employed in preparing Lucy's wedding clothes; and, the

quarantine terminated, they set off on their journey. We could

add, they arrived, but, notwithstanding our desire to yield to

the impatience of the reader, there are three circumstances which

we must not pass over in silence.