ABSTRACT

Great was our hero’s and Sancho’s impatience till the return of the hermit, which was in less than an hour. ‘You have thought me tardy,’ said he; ‘but it required so much caution to disclose, discreetly, this adventure, and to answer the many questions of the anxious Letitia, that I could not use more speed. Follow me now, my dear son, and let me once more renew the transports of my youth.’