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 following week, and she promised to herself much pleasure in my correspondence. When this dear generous lady had left me, I felt ready to have resigned my claims, to have submitted to bear the ignominy the Count wished to throw on me, rather than be the cause of distressing such a mind as her's.—Yet, on a retrospection of every thing, I could not perceive that sorrow or affection had any share in her regrets for the necessity she conceived that had obliged her to leave the Count, I was thoroughly persuaded her love for him never could have equalled mine, from the composure with which she mentioned him; and that idea afforded me no small consolation.

The next week, a gentleman came to us from our generous benefactress, and settled every thing relative to our taking possession of her gift at Stutgard, with a handsome sum for our present wants. This last I declined; for having still by me the money which the Count had left to me, and which was sent with my clothes; I resolved to make use of