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 and lay the foundation for progressive virtue or vice."

At a proper hour, the two gentlemen repaired to the house of Dr. Renau, and were introduced to Louisa.—She was seated in an arm chair, and accompanied by Madam Blomfielde, the physician's aunt, who rose at their entrance, and after a few compliments, left the room. They congratulated the invalid on her appearance, so much for the better.

"I am indeed," said she, "under infinite obligations to you, gentlemen, and to the good Doctor; and feeling myself in safety from the power and machinations of the most profligate of men, has restored a comparative peace to my mind, which has its influence on my general state of health. Permit me also to felicitate myself and you, on your preservation from death, an event so unquestionably believed by all your friends, that seeing you, Sir (addressing Ferdinand) follow the Turk into the room, occasioned the faintings I was seized with, the weakened state of my head