London:
Printed by STEWART and MURRAY,
Old Bailey.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
I.—[The Third Penitent.—The Monk]
II.—[The Monk's Story]
III.—[A Narrow Escape]
IV.—[Castelguelfo.—The Wolf of Amato]
V.—[Happiness]
VI.—[The Villa Besieged]
VII.—[The Nuptials]
VIII.—[The Tempest.—The Last of the Hunchback]
IX.—[A Military Honeymoon]
X.—[Wreck of the "Delight"]
XI.—[The Voltigeurs.—The Massacre of Bagnara]
XII.—[A Retreat In Square.—The Prisoner of War]
XIII.—[The Drum-head Court-martial]
XIV.—[Dianora.—The Forfeited Hand]
XV.—[The Monastery]
XVI.—[The Sanctuary Violated]
XVII.—[Unexpected Perils]
XVIII.—[Captured by the Enemy.—The Two Generals]
XIX.—[The Albergo.—The Bandit's Revenge]
XX.—[The Bandit's Cavern.—Recapture]
XXI.—[Joys of a Military Honeymoon]
XXII.—[The Siege of Scylla]
XXIII.—[The Fall of Scylla.—Conclusion]
ADVENTURES
OF AN
AIDE-DE-CAMP.
CHAPTER I.
THE THIRD PENITENT—THE MONK.
The escape of a second victim from the vaults caused a great surmising and anxiety at Canne; and although, no doubt, the cardinal suspected that I had a hand in the matter, he never spoke of it. The astonishment of the keeper was boundless, when he discovered his charge vanishing so unaccountably: he was accused of conspiracy, and imprisoned by order of the podesta. The poor man defended himself before the tribunal, by laying the blame upon—whom think you, gentle reader?—VIRGIL; who is regarded by the lower order of Italians less as a poet, than as a conjuror and magician, upon whose guilty head the blame of everything wicked and wonderful is laid.