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62 Count, you ee me agitated.

What can be the caue?

I’ll not keep you in doubt a moment. You are accued, young man, of being engaged to another woman while you offer marriage to my child.

To only one other woman?

What do you mean?

My meaning is, that when a man is young and rich, has travelled, and is no peronal object of diapprobation, to have made vows but to one woman, is an abolute light upon the ret of the ex.

Without evaion, Sir, do you know the name of Baden? Was there ever a promie of marriage made by you to his daughter? Anwer me plainly: or mut I take a journey to inquire of the father?

No—he can tell you no more than, I dare ay, you already know; and which I hall not contradict.

Amazing inenibility! And can you hold your head erect while you acknowledge perfidy?

My dear baron, if every man, who deerves to