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I thank you, dear uncle.

We have no reasonable proof of his parentage.

I know not what you have learnt from Mr. Manhaunslet; but if this statement from the Genoese ambassador, in answer to the queries of Clermont, agree with it, you will have something of evidence to rest on. (Offering him a paper.)

Read it thyself; I cannot—no, don't read it; tell me the substance of it; that will suffice.

It says that Madame Martoni became the mother of a boy a few weeks before her death, and that Martoni, with the child, left Italy the year after to go into Bohemia, but from that time was never heard of more.

If thou art her boy—if thou art, indeed.—O, that I were assured of it!

Mrs. Brown, you said something about a gold heart which you took from his neck.