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 he has dealt honetly, and detined you a ubtantial prize in his lottery.’ Zoe had a elect collection of paintings, partly works of the greatet maters, and partly family pieces. Among the former were portraits of the mot celebrated Grecian beauties of every age: among the latter was her own form, repreented in various attitudes and employments, with all thoe youthful charms which he poeed while he yet viited the fairy waters. A gleam of vanity—for vanity will ometimes adhere to the ex beyond the grand climacteric—a recollection of her former plendor amid the preent decay, uggeted the idea, that probably her own portrait had enchanted Friedbert’s imagination; and he felt the glow of ecret atisfaction, when he fancied herelf aying to him, ‘Friend, I am myelf the original of that painting.’ The idea of his atonishment, when the powerful pell hould thus break, gave her great glee by anticipation. Sir Slyboots, however, was too ure of his Rh