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 able to convince her that uch a piece of gallantry was not inconitent with the trictet notions of the ladies repecting the inviolable anctity of prior engagements. She therefore yielded to his entreaty, and furnihed him with a written order to the abbes, to be admitted to an audience with the inconoleable Callita. Friedbert et out early, hope and doubt purred on his teed, for he was impatient to know how his mitres would receive him. Circumtances eemed to indicate that he would pardon his theft of the veil. He entered the virgin’s cell with a beating heart; the young lady was itting on a ofa, with her face turned from the door; her hair fell in natural ringlets down her houlders, and was only negligently bound with a ky-blue ribband. Her unk eye, and features, eemed to betray deep melancholy; her head was upported on her lily-white arm. She took but little notice of the peron who approached; yet his unaccutomed tread impreed her