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 voice,) but on your honour, on your delicacy I rest, to bury in oblivion what you heard."

"In my heart eternally," said de Sevignie.

"You must promise to forget it, (proceeded Madeline) that I may try to be reconciled to myself."

"Forget! (repeated de Sevignie) no Madeline, never will I give a promise which my heart protests against fulfilling; the memory of what I have heard I will cherish; I will treasure, as all that can give pleasure to my existence; in all my wanderings, amidst all my cares, I will recur to it for comfort and support; for never can I feel quite forlorn, never utterly miserable, while I imagine I am regarded, I am thought of by you."

Madeline sighed, and averted her eyes from his, in order to conceal the feelings his language excited. Reason opposed a longer continuance with him, by convincing her a lengthened conversation would only add to