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Rh by a return to his country after long absence, and the delight he evidently experienced in his child, of whose welfare she wrote every day of her life; but it would not be always thus. If he discovered how far her uncle Riccardini had relieved her mother, and to how little purpose, she was confident her conduct would be held unforgiveable, for it might be said, truly, that Glentworth doated on the Count, and the Count on him. How it happened, where they had formed their acquaintance, and conciliated their friendship, she knew not; but little as she had seen, she could not doubt the fact. Upright and simple-minded, adding, of late, the obligations of religion to a native sense of integrity, Louisa was also an intelligent woman, of excellent capacity; and the trickery of her mother, though only partially understood, had taught her to know that "such things were" as deception. Lady Anne had asked repeatedly of late, what had become of the Count's cab? to which she truly replied, "she did not know; she had observed he did not use it, and she wondered why." "He has sold his horse, his Hector he was so fond of. I think he was foolish not to sell the cab at the same time, for, if his love for his horse was a pleasure, because he fancied it loved him, we are quite certain that was not the case with the cab—