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 he should be compelled to make his father's weakness known, and the attendant circumstances.

He then reverted to the story of Louisa. Miss d'Allenberg's situation gave him the most poignant concern; a young woman so respectable, so charming, a victim to a hopeless passion; who could the object be? that her heart was free, when she consented to marry Count Wolfran, was a certainty avowed by herself. He then recollected every little circumstance of her behaviour, when Count M and himself were on a visit to her father. Her politeness and attention then appeared to be equally divided, but now, on a review of every thing, Ferdinand remembered the Count had much the greater share of her notice. She talked mostly to him; she leant on his arm in the garden;—and on the day of their departure, he had observed in taking leave, she fixed her eyes on the Count as she spoke.

"Yes," said he, on recapitulating those trifling circumstances.—"Yes, I am con-