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of his adoration. For some time we were utterly bewildered, but at length recollected that at Rome a young man had constantly followed the cousin who was with us, had lifted the heavy curtains for her at the entrance of the churches, found her places in a mass-book, &c., and we concluded that he must have tracked her to the Palazzo Lovati, inquired of
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the porter who lived there, and hearing it was " Mrs. Hare," had followed its to Florence. Lady Anne S. Giorgio coming in soon after to see us, undertook to answer the letter, and did so most capitally; but Giorgio Rovert did not break his heart, and within three weeks we heard of him as proposing to old Lady Dillon! This delayed us long at the dull Salerno., and afterwards at La Cava, where I comforted myself by much drawing at Salvator Eosa's grotto in the valley below the old Benedictine convent.