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 she had scarcely doubted before, that he and de Sevignie were the same person.

She now found it to be a highly-finished landscape of the castle and surrounding scenes, in which a small female figure was conspicuously drawn. This bore so great a resemblance to her own person, that she had no doubt of its being designed for her. Such an indication of attachment touched her young and simple heart more perhaps than the most impassioned declaration could have accomplished.

"As soon as he departs, I shall pin this picture up (proceeded his hostess); it will look so pretty against the wall; but till then I should be afraid to do so, lest he should demand it."

"I think (said Madeline, who feared the good woman or some of her family might discover the resemblance which the figure in the drawing bore to her), you had better return it."