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 entertained of me on our first coming to the castle were well founded;—alas! they were too just!"

He stopped for a minute as if overcome by agony; then again addressing her—"you recollect, I suppose (said he) all the particulars I informed you of in our journey hither?"

"I do," said Madeline.

"I told you (resumed he) of the letter I received from my brother, requesting me to leave my elizium on the Alps, and of my meeting him in the pursuance of it in the forest of Montmorenci. He was so much altered, that had I met him elsewhere by chance, I should scarcely have known him. He told me he had been long indisposed, and that it was in consequence of his indisposition and the languid state of his spirits, that he had requested to see me, certain that my presence would operate like a rich cordial upon him.

"In the cottage where he had lodged me on the commencement of our acquaintance, he again procured a chamber for me; it stood