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 vinced the Count has been so happy to touch that heart so good, so amiable; he is unconscious of the distress he has given birth to, and his situation will, from honour and delicacy, ever preclude him the unspeakable delight of restoring her mind to peace."

What a fatality, thought he, that so lovely a woman should have placed her affections so unhappily; never shall I forgive myself for that unfortunate introduction to her acquaintance. The more he reflected, the more he was convinced the Count was the object that had produced the lamentable change in this amiable young lady.

Our confession at parting, that we were "married, and unfortunate," her father doubtless repeated, and from thence originated the melancholy that oppressed the daughter. He sighed heavily for her disappointment, and scarcely thought life worth preserving, when subject to such various events, productive of certain misery.

"Did not my child exist," exclaimed he in a fit of despondency; "did I not feel, that