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 ment for her refual to comply, according to her agreement, with his amorous wihes.—‘Strange indeed!’ exclaimed the whole company with one voice, at the ame time cating a ignificant glance towards Dr. Springsfeld; who ecretly hrugged up his houlders, and vowed in his own mind not to dimis the patient from under his care, till the waters hould have wahed every trace of the romantic Giant-mountains clean out of her imagination. The pring in the mean time performed all the doctor or the patient expected from it. The Countes, perceiving that her tory met with mall credit among the Iraelites of Carlbad, and even rendered the oundnes of her undertanding problematical, dropped the ubject; and Dr. Springsfeld did not fail to acribe this happy effect to the water, which had in truth operated in a very different, though a no les alutary manner, by curing the Countes of her gout, and eaing every ache in her joints. The