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venture gloriously, I promise to grant whatever reward you shall ask.
So saying, the monarch left me: and thus, in possession of my talisman, I instantly wished myself with Eliana. The very same moment, I saw myself in the midst of a superb garden, heard the sound of voices, stopped: looked round me and, by the clear light of the moon, perceived, at some distance, the beautiful Eliana, whom I had seen in the magic glass. Sl1e was precisely in the same situation, swinging with the most furious velocity; which madness appeared to me utterly inconceivable.
The princess was conversing with a very pretty little sylph, who was speaking. It is pleasant enough, said he, to swing sometimes; but to swing always, whatever can be said to persuade you from it, still swing, swing, swing, during all the prime of youth, this is cruel, I confess.
O, Zumio, replied the princess, how happy are you, that you can preserve your gaiety! You, it is true, like me, are deprived of liberty, but then you are not treated with so much bar-
