Filippo Engaged To Secure His Father's Acquiescence; Indeed, He Undertook To Watch Over Our Interests, And Was The Channel Through Which We Were To Correspond.

My parting with Bianca was tender - delicious - agonizing.

It was in a little pavilion of the garden which had been one of our favorite resorts. How often and often did I return to have one more adieu - to have her look once more on me in speechless emotion - to enjoy once more the rapturous sight of those tears streaming down her lovely cheeks - to seize once more on that delicate hand, the frankly accorded pledge of love, and cover it with tears and kisses! Heavens! There is a delight even in the parting agony of two lovers worth a thousand tame pleasures of the world. I have her at this moment before my eyes - at the window of the pavilion, putting aside the vines that clustered about the casement - her light form beaming forth in virgin white - her countenance all tears and smiles - sending a thousand and a thousand adieus after me, as, hesitating, in a delirium of fondness and agitation, I faltered my way down the avenue.

As the bark bore me out of the harbor of Genoa, how eagerly my eyes Stretched along the coast of Sestri, till it discerned the villa gleaming from among trees at the foot of the mountain. As long as day lasted, I gazed and gazed upon it, till it lessened and lessened to a mere white speck in the distance; and still my intense and fixed gaze discerned it, when all other objects of the coast had blended into indistinct confusion, or were lost in the evening gloom.

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