To Prevent All Suspicion Of Her Intention She Left Her Cloaths, And Every Thing She Had Brought Into The Convent, Under The Care Of The Abbess, Saying, That, At Her Return, She Would Have Them Disposed Of, And The Money Given To The Poor:

But, unknown to any one except Leonora, she quilted some pieces of gold and valuable trinkets into her undergarment, as not doubting but she should have occasion for much more than, in effect, she was mistress of.

When on her journey, the pleasure she felt at seeing herself out of the walls of the monastery, was very much abated by the uncertainty how she should proceed, or where direct her way: and indeed, let any one figure to themselves the condition she was in, and they will rather wonder she had courage to go on, than that she was sometimes daunted even to despair. - A young creature of little more than eighteen years old, - wholly unacquainted with fatigue, - delicate in her frame, - wandering alone on foot in the midst of a strange country, - ignorant of the road, or had she been acquainted with it, at a loss where to go to get any intelligence of what she sought, and even doubtful if the person she ran such risques to hear of, yet were in the world or not. The letter Leonora had informed her of, gave no account, at least that she could learn, either where he was, or whether there were any hopes of his recovery from that illness it mentioned; she had therefore every thing to dread, and little, very little to hope:

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