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TRANSFORMATION:

OR, THE

ROMANCE OF MONTE BENI.

BY

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE,

AUTHOR OF THE SCARLET LETTER," ETC. ETC.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL.

M.DCCC.LX.

249. N. 574.

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THE

ROMANCE OF MONTE BENI.

CHAPTER I.

MARKET-DAY IN PERUGIA.

PERUGIA, on its lofty hill-top, was reached by the two travellers before the sun had quite kissed away the early freshness of the morning. Since midnight, there had been a heavy rain, bringing infinite refreshment to the scene of verdure and fertility amid which this ancient civilization stands; insomuch that Kenyon loitered, when they came to the gray city-wall, and was loth to give up the prospect of the sunny wilderness that lay below. It was as green as

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