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10 neighbours with when circumstances obliged them to have any communication, completed their disgust, and made them regard him as one accurst. One sole spark of human affection yet lingered round this man of terror—it was love for his Juliana, But even this; pure and holy as it was, partook of the wild and uncertain nature of all his emotions. Sometimes he would hang over his child, gazing with loting fondness upon her lovely fate—then he would spurn her from him with every demonstration of hatred and disgust, and, flying to his own chamber, shut himself up there from the world. Juliana's affections were thus withered in the bud, & her heart, seared by unkindness, recurred with rapture to the days of her childhood, when, carressed by the beautiful Countess and the youthful Otto, she had known no care, and the world had seemed a paradise of joy. These pleasing remembrances received additional force from the presents the Countess frequently sent her, of clothes made in the fashion of those of Italy; and her sole pleasure, when the absence of her father gave her an opportunity, was to dress herself in this gay attire, and sit and fancy herself again in the lovely country of her birth, till, lost in the visions created by her imagination her heart beat, her cheek glowed and happiness again played round her heart.