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Rh This precaution taken, they went to the theater, and installed themselves in the count's box. During the first act, the Countess G entered hers. Her first look was at the box where she had seen the count the previous evening, so that she perceived Franz and Albert in

the box of the very person concerning whom she had expressed so strange an opinion to Franz. Her opera-glass was so fixedly directed toward them, that Franz saw it would be cruel not to satisfy her curiosity; and, availing himself of one of the privileges of the spectators of the Italian theaters, which consists in using their boxes as their