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My companion noted the peculiarities of the route, and committed to writing the information I furnished respect- ing the district. We rested on the summit of a steep, skirted by the foaming stream of the cascade, beyond which rose wooded grounds in bold acclivity, mellowing with their dusky greenness the gloomy grandeur of a mouldering tower. The stranger abruptly adverted to the hateful humiliation of the preceding day. He descanted on the contumely I had suffered, with a vehement bitterness t...hat chafed my young blood to flame. I denounced endless hostility against the Count and his minions. He calmly commented on the futility of the threat. In the frenzy of exasperation, I insinu- ated the possibility of resorting to the darkest means of ac- complishing revenge. He replied, that in cooler moments I would spurn the idea of Italian vengeance. Requiring a pledge of secresy, he proceeded to point out an honorable mode of lowering the crest of the oppressor. "My name, " he said, "is Philippon— my profession, a military engineer, in the service of the French Republic.
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