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small degree to the spread of these reports by his 

 eccentric conduct. But only 

 once, while in Paris, did 

 he feel prompted to refute 

 the stories that were _ip==*a;;T 

 printed about him in ^ ' ''Si\ 

 the newspapers. In 

 a letter which he 

 published in the ''Revue 

 Musicale" he gave an 

 account of his lile and 

 assured the public that 

 he had neither murdered 

 his sweetheart nor been hi 

 prison, nor had he sig- 

 ned himself o\er to .; j 

 the devil. And he con- 

 cluded with the liope that 

 the\' would at least 

 allow his ashes 

 their well-earned 

 repose. Yet tliis hope 

 was not to be fullilled. 

 Even a marble bust of 

 Pacranini in the \'illetta 



0i 



di Negro at Genoa di.' 



that place. 



^^'e returned to the is- 

 land of Ste. Marguerite and 



appeared m^'steriouslv from .^jf^'^sj^^ ~\\''yjt^'^ 



Of/ 



Inula viscOsa. 



