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 *nation had raised him. "If I pardon this," she cried, as she sent Zerbellini away, and hastened to bed,—"if ever I waste a tear, or sigh, or thought, on him again, may I suffer what I deserve.—But the thing is impossible."

Lady Mandeville at this time was all kindness to Lady Avondale. She was going from the castle; and, as she parted, she gave her this advice. "Never place yourself in the power of any man: love of this sort is apt to terminate in a wreck; and whoever puts most to stake will be the sufferer." Lady Augusta also departed.