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 with visible confusion, de Sevignie instantly withdrew.

The day after the alteration took place in Clermont's manner, an alteration Madeline wept in secret, de Sevignie absented himself from the cottage till the close of evening; he then entered the room where Clermont and Madeline sat dejectedly together, and informed them he was come merely for the purpose of taking leave, having fixed on the next morning for his departure: delighted to hear this, Clermont lost all coldness, and would have conversed again as usual with him, had the spirits of de Sevignie permitted him to do so; but Madeline was unable to speak; pensively she sat in a window, wishing, yet fearing, to quit the room, lest her father and de Sevignie should suspect the motive which tempted her to do so.

At length de Sevignie rose to depart; Madeline also involuntarily arose.—"Fare-