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 doubt I should just have thought as you did: let us now endeavour to banish all that is disagreeable from our recollections."

"With ecstasy (said Madeline). Oh! never, my father, shall my faith in your virtues be again shaken. Ah! happy should I now be, could I be reconciled to myself. Your words have removed a mountain from my breast; and all the horrors of doubt and suspicion are over."

"My happiness depends on your's (said St. Julian); the best proof, therefore, you can give me of your regard, is by endeavouring to recover your spirits."

"Every effort then shall be made (replied Madeline); and efforts in a right cause are generally successful."

Her father then led her to the apartment where the Marquis sat, who expressed much pleasure at seeing her better.