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 cated here a daughter famous for her uncommon beauty. Adelheid, Baronness of V******l, was the brightest ornament and the admiration of the whole province. She lived, however, a solitary life, having no intercourse with her neighbours; few had seen, and a still smaller number ever spoken to her.

This information agitated me in a singular manner. "V******l!" I exclaimed: "have you heard right?"

"I cannot be mistaken, My Lord," he replied.

"The name is very familiar to me: should he, perhaps, be the father of V******l?"

"Whose life you saved at G******," Antonio interrupted me.

"The very person," I resumed. "I now recollect that he frequently has conversed with me of his father and sister; and I am certain he was a native of this province."