Page:Clermont - Roche (1798, volume 1).djvu/235

 get his name, but I dare say you recollect, Mam'selle."

Too well, thought Madeline. She sighed, but made no reply; and, rising, began to undress in order to conceal the agitation which the mention of de Sevignie had excited in her mind.

"You are come back to a dismal house, Mam'selle (said Floretta, echoing her sigh, which she imputed to regret for past pleasures), to a dismal house indeed, (shaking her head), now that my poor lady is ill."

"Its gloom on that account will soon be dissipated I trust (cried Madeline), by the perfect restoration of her health."

"Alas! I fear not (said Floretta with a greater seriousness than Madeline had ever before remarked in her countenance), her mind is too much disturbed to permit me to think it will."

"Disturbed! (repeated Madeline in an accent of the greatest surprise, and turning