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 avoid her company and yours? but that I am sensible of the danger I run in being with either; and that, unlike your military heroes, I rather fly from it than brave it."

"You should always have that apprehension of danger about you then (said Olivia), and not ask a lady's permission to wait upon her, and then send a frivolous excuse."

"We are not always collected (cried he), and the reflection of the morning often destroys the resolution of the night." He then bowed and walked away.

The solemn accent in which he had delivered the last words shocked Madeline as much as the alteration in his looks and manner had already done; he was pale and languid; and his eyes, instead of anxiously seeking, assiduously avoided her; while a cool salutation was the only notice he took of her.

"De Sevignie is really one of the most altered beings within those few days I ever knew (said Olivia, as they pursued their