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Confounded and despairing, I could form no probable conjecture concerning this adventure, but took the talisman, put the counterfeit on the table, again snatched up my basket, in order to evade suspicion, and silently retired.

I will not attempt to describe my rage and grief. I knew not how or when Rosamond had procured my talisman, but it was evident there was treachery at the bottom. So then! cried I, all the power of magic is unable to cope with the perfidy of women; even here, in this palace, women can find means to deceive!

As soon as Rosamond was up, I went to her; my agitation was extreme; struck with the alteration she saw in my countenance, she asked me the occasion of it with anxiety.

I have made some melancholy reflections, said I; and am obliged to own I am jealous of Zumio.

You are unjust, then, and do me wrong.

These few words transported me, and had almost rendered me all my happiness back, when Rosamond thus continued.

You may depend on my fidelity; my virtue

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