[AD] {55}But while this search was making, Julia's tongue.—[MS.]
[74] The Spanish "Cortejo" is much the same as the Italian "Cavalier Servente."
[75] {56}Donna Julia here made a mistake. Count O'Reilly did not take Algiers—but Algiers very nearly took him: he and his army and fleet retreated with great loss, and not much credit, from before that city, in the year 1775.
[Alexander O'Reilly, born 1722, a Spanish general of Irish extraction, failed in an expedition against Algiers in 1775, in which the Spaniards lost four thousand men. In 1794 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the forces equipped against the army of the French National Convention. He died March 23, 1794.]
[76] [The Italian names have an obvious signification.]
[AE] The chimney—fit retreat for any lover!—[MS.]
[AF] {58}—— may deplore.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[77] {59}["Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh" (Job ii. 10).]
[78] ["Don't be read aloud."—[H.]—[Revise.]
[AG] {60}