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22 calls for assistance. She revives. They embrace the old Shepherd by turns, and aequaintacquaint [sic] the wholcwhole [sic] family with the subject of their transport. They set immediately on their journey, and arrived with the greatest expedition. The old dame conduetedconducted [sic] them to the place where she was. How great their surprise! when they beheld their lovely son with the shepherdess, in the habit of a simple pastor. Ah! cruel ehildchild [sic], eriedcried [sic] Fonrose's mother, throwing her arms about his neek, what troubles you have given us. What eouldcould [sic] endueeenduce [sic] you to leave your affectionate parents? What is your business here? To adore what you yourself so much admired. Madam, said Adelaide, whilst Fonrose embraeedembraced [sic] his father's knees, you would not have been so long a prey to grief, had I diseovereddiscovered [sic] sooner your dear son. After a few effusions of naturcnature [sic] were over, Fonrose relapsed into his former melaneholymelancholy [sic]. Come, said the Countess, let us go and repose ourselves in the eabincabin [sic], and forget the woes this young man has plunged us in. 'Tis very true, said Fonrose to his father, who led him by the hand; what else but the deprivation of my reason eouldcould [sic] suspend the emotions of nature, and make me forget the most saeredsacred [sic] duties? what but madness? I am in love with the most amiable and accomplished person in the world. You have seen but little of her Honour, Virtue, and Sensibility! She unites all that is good. I eannotcannot [sic] be happy, without her, and she never eancan [sic] be mine. Has she trusted you, said the Count, with the seeretsecret [sic] of her birth? I have learned enough, replied Fonrose, to assure you it is not inferior to mine. She has renounced