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Rh matin, catching Rosilia, held out to him by her mother, danced and frolicked with the other children in the adjoining apartment.

Mrs. De Brooke then introduced her discourse by making a brief but forcible representation of the expensiveness attached to their pursuing a separate establishment; that having made herself, through Robert, acquainted with the particulars relative to the manner in which he was accommodated, she concluded thence, that, by the convenience of an additional chamber, many difficulties being obviated, they might live together; when, in no longer submitting to the pain of absence, they would also derive, what in their situation was of such essential importance, the œconomizing from his army allowance, which in its accumulations could be devoted to the payment and satisfaction of his creditors, and thus shorten the period that placed him under the restraint of the law. Prepared as she was to discuss a point so interesting to her feelings, her mien became animated, her expressions eloquent.

De Brooke as she spoke contemplated her with a mixt feeling of wonder and admiration. To part from that beloved object, voluntarily to renounce the charms of her constant society, was a privation great indeed; but, on the other hand, to see