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Rh doubt my fortitude, in the preence of an unnatural parent in properity?

I hope you judge more favourably of Count Cael’s undertanding ince the private interview you have had with him. Confes to me the exact effect of the long conference between you.

To make me hate him.

What has he done?

Oh! told me of uch barbarous deeds he has committed.

What deeds?

Made vows of love to o many women, that, on his marriage with me, a hundred female hearts will at leat be broken.

Pha! do you believe him?

Suppoe I do not; is it to his honour that I believe he tells a falehood?

He is mitaken merely.

Indeed, my Lord, in one repect I am ure he Rh