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30 on the ubject of the Count; but as he is here, leave us alone.

Good morning, Mr. Anhalt.—I hope you are very well.

I’ll tell you in a few words why I ent for you. Count Cael is here, and wihes to marry my daughter.

Really!

He is—he—in a word I don’t like him.

And Mis Wildenhaim——

I hall not command, neither peruade her to the marriage—I know too well the fatal influence of parents on uch a ubject. Objections to be ure, if they could be removed—But when you find a man’s head without brains, and his boom without a heart, thee are important articles to upply. Young as you are, Anhalt, I know no one o able to retore, or to betow thoe bleings on his fellow-creatures, as you. [Anhalt bows.] The Count wants a little of my daughter’s implicity and enibility.—Take him under your care while he is here, and make him omething like yourelf.—You have uceeded to my wih in the education of my daughter.—Form the Count after your own manner.—I hall then have what I have ighed for all my life—a on.

With your permiion, Baron, I will ak one quetion. What remains to interet you in favour of