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22 to accept me for a father-in-law; for this does not bind him to any thing." ' I leave you to imagine the surprise an gratitude of Salvary at seeing all the trace of his ruin done away, as it were by the stroke of a pen; and with that eagernes he came to return thanks to his benefactor He was nevertheless, detained in Holland longer than he wished, and the impetuou Nervin began to complain, that this ma was tardy and very hard to be worked upon At last he arrived at my house, not yet da ing to persuade himself but that his happy- ness was only a dream. I introduced hi soon to his generous benefactor, with a min impressed with two sentiments equally grat ful, deeply sensible of the father's goodness and every day still more captivated with tl charms of his daughter; finding in h all he had so much loved and so much r gretted in Adrienne, his mind was as were ravished with gratitude and love. I was no longer able, he said to deside which was the more inestimable gift of heaven; friend like Nervin, or a wife like Justine. One, regret, however that he could n conceal, still hung about his mind. “ Pardon me," said he one day, when Nervin ap- proached him for having rather put his p tience to the test : "pardon me sir, I w impatient to throw myself at your feet, b beside the accounts I had to make up I hate had in leaving Holland, more than one come