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 "I will now leave you to repose (said Lafroy); I am sure you need it, for the events of this day must certainly have agitated you not a little."

Madeline conjured him to come to her as soon as he possibly could after the delivery of the letter, which he promised to do, and then retired.

Kneeling down, Madeline then implored the protection of Heaven for her father, and its support for herself through the numerous trials she feared she had to encounter; after which, faint and exhausted by the agitations she had experienced, she went to bed. Her mind was too much disturbed to permit her slumbers to be tranquil; and she arose unrefreshed at the dawn of day. At the usual hour, a servant (the same who had attended her the preceding night) appeared to inform her breakfast was ready. Madeline said she was too unwell to go down, and desired her's to be brought to her dressing-room. She