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Rh from society. The object that might have induced me to join it I had not then beheld—I only saw Miss Arundel just before she left town. My sentence of banishment was revoked; but Naples had lost its charms when I saw the idol of my soul, and resolved she should be mine."

"Take my advice—restore us to our friends, and our gratitude" "Signora, I have lived in the world, and prefer certainty to expectation. I will now retire;—late hours must not injure the roses I expect my bride to wear to-morrow. I go to guard your slumbers." So saying, he folded his cloak around him, and departed—to say the truth, a little disappointed. Emily's state of breathless terror had disconcerted one of his plans. He had relied on producing something of an impression;—plumes, pistols, cloak, mustaches, passion, and an attitude, he had calculated were irresistible; but not a glance, except of fear, had been turned towards him. However, the game was in his own hands, and he cared little whether he roughed or smoothed it. "Why, Emily!" exclaimed Lady Mandeville, unable, even under such circumstances,