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100 hands amid flames that were any thing but light, was absolutely astonished to see a man who, although no longer young and lovely, like Frederic and Arthur, was handsome enough to have charmed bloody Mary herself, and could hardly have failed to touch the heart of the virgin queen, who was the object of her special veneration. A single evening sufficed to place the Count in the same position in the hearts of his new acquaintance which he had always held in those who had known him long and intimately. The sincere are the confiding, and integrity and kindness possess intuitive faculties for distinguishing and preferring each other: penetration is not the exclusive property of the worldly-wise, though they are perpetually claiming it.