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 exhaled; when feeling himself refreshed and reanimated, he threw himself on the bed, and soon sunk into a profound sleep.

After some hours of quiet repose, a slight noise awakened him. The first objeet that struek him was the unknown lady, whose veil being thrown back, permitted him to see her features. She approached him smiling, and said, "The Count de Nevers is worthy of his father: no kind of danger can deprive you of his fortitude, and you are not insensible to the chain of virtue. That empty eup and your tranquil slumbers prove it. You have not disappointed my hopes—you will always fulfil them; you will esteem me for myself, and whilst I reign over fools and villains by the terror of superstition, I shall owe the serviee which I expect from you, to the noble confidenee of honour and valour."

Whilst she spoke, her action was both persuasive and noble. He examined her eountenanee attentively. Her features were noble and regular; melaneholy was strongly imprinted on her countenance, which even a smile did not entirely remove, though it rendered her more interesting, and gave to her face a mild and sensible expression; for never did black eyes join to the vivaeity so natural to them, an expression of sensibility more striking.

At last, having recovered the power of utterance, he returned her his grateful acknowledgements for having delivered him from the power of the King of Navarre, and assured her, that she only had to say how he was to serve her, and, be the peril ever so dangerous, it would be eneountered by him without delay. Smiling, she said, she would not put his prowess at present to the test; but only wished him to remain eight days in the asylum where she had placed.—"My life, madam, is in