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 her design, and made her profession. I visited her frequently at the grate; and every moment that I passed with her made me feel more affliction at her loss. I was shortly after obliged to quit Madrid; I returned but yesterday evening, and, since then, have not had time to call at St. Clare's convent."

"Then, till I mentioned it, you never heard the name of Alphonso d'Alvarada?"

"Pardon me: my aunt wrote me word, that an adventurer so called had found means to get introduced into the castle of Lindenberg; that he had insinuated himself into my sister's good graces; and that she had even consented to elope with him. However, before the plan could be executed, the cavalier discovered, that the estates which he believed Agnes to possess in Hispaniola, in reality belonged to me. This intelligence made him change his intention; he disappeared on the day that the elopement was to have taken place; and Agnes, in despair at his perfidy and meanness, had resolved upon seclusion in a convent. She