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 of it a ring, ornamented with a parkling ruby, in the hape of an heart. From this packet, which had all the appearance of being left behind on purpoe, I deduced the mot favourable interpretation. Zoe, I uppoed, meant to ay, that he left her heart behind her, that he was not inenible to my deerts; and though he could not, for the ake of appearances, part from her company, he would as oon as poible return without attendants, and hearken to my deires.

‘With thee thoughts I conoled myelf, and remained one, two, and more years, in longing expectation of another viit from the wans. Nor was my patience yet exhauted; but my imprudence eemed to have banihed them from the pool. Afterwards a few returned, and I conceived freh hopes. I watched them cloe, and enjoyed from time to time the unreerved view of angelic forms with calm indifference—for how eay to reit the temptation of the banquet, when the appetite is