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thing you can do, is to leave the count and me time enough to discover how foolish we both are.

The wisest thing I can do, madam, is to forget and despise the heartless caprice of a fickle, fantastical beauty.

Be wise, then, good cousin, since you have found out the way.

Heartless woman! canst thou treat with such levity the misery thou hast occasioned?

O pardon me, my dear Hartman! thou takest this matter more deeply than I dreamt of. Think not so severely of me; if I have erred, lend me of thine own generosity some further credit on thy good opinion, and I will redeem it. Have you not always known me as your gay and thoughtless cousin? and why will you tax me now as a grave and prudent dame? Come to me to-morrow; I shall then have seen my brother, and will talk to you seriously on a subject which to-day I would avoid.

At what hour shall I meet you?