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Rh ill-starred lot? I am hastening to Naples—you know the address on the packet. I shall be at Senhor Pachetti's—join me there, if possible, with your poor mother. I know this will require equal presence of mind and exertion—surely I may expect both in a daughter of mine? Come with all the speed you can; I doubt not to be there before you, and shall be impatient in the happiness of the father to forget the wrongs of the patriot. God keep you, my sweet child. "Your affectionate father, ". "Burn this letter instantly."

Beatrice kissed the scroll, and held it over the lamp—it was too wet with her tears to burn rapidly. "Your poor mother!"—and must their first meeting be embittered by words of death? But she was too young to dwell only on the sorrow; her heart beat hurriedly and joyfully as she thought that her father and Lorraine must inevitably meet. Her first impulse was to make every effort to reach Naples, but calmer deliberation induced her to renounce this plan. Love increases a woman's timidity—the more she thought of Edward,