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 whom the common etiquette of courts had left in the poeion of titular beauty, as an Ex-miniter is till tyled His Excellency, though the tooth of time had gnawn away every one of the good lady’s charms, and Apelles could now only ue her as a model for a fine old head. He aumed, on his introduction to her, the character of an Italian knight. And whether Zoe till retained a predilection for travellers of this denomination, or perceived the ring that had once been hers, now parkling with its heart-haped ruby on the adventurer’s finger, he met with the mot welcome reception; he eemed, indeed, to take a ingular fancy to him. When the tumult of the marriage rejoicings was over, the princes quitted the court, and retired to the ilent reidence of her palace: but Friedbert received permiion to enter the monatic anctuary, a privilege confined to a few confidential friends; and Zoe by degrees came to regard him with the affection of a parent. As they were once walk-