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manual, for your use : if Howard likes to 

 make a summary of his doctrines by way 

 of counter-poison, — padronissimo, as the 

 Italians say : but, you see the sun is getting 

 low and we must make the best of our way 

 to the inn." 



They then crossed the pasture, and on 

 getting over the next stile, saw the town 

 they were going to standing on an emi- 

 nence, and in great beauty; for the sun 

 being almost immediately behind it, gilded 

 with his last beams the tops of the trees, 

 and the battlements and pinnacles of the 

 churches; while the lower buildings were 

 in a mass of shade. After a pleasant walk 

 over fields, the three friends got to their 

 inn just before it was dusk, highly pleased 

 with the excursion they had made, and full 

 of new plans for the rest of the time they 

 were to pass together. 



