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 amusements, she hoped that cloud would soon be brushed away to their mutual satisfaction."

The perusal of this letter at first rather displeased Count M; but at the second reading, he was more just; it was selfish to feel discontent, because religion and good sense had tranquillized her mind, and that the situation she had chosen from the purest motives should have realized her expectations and wishes: Did he not wish her happy, after the years of misery she had struggled with; and was not her conduct truly laudable and praise-worthy? Those reflections recalled him from his temporary displeasure, and rendered the sentiment she expressed more estimable in his eyes, from the very circumstances that first offended him.

She did not mention the Countess in her letter, and therefore it was uncertain if she remained in that convent, or had changed her residence.

The Count, having examined the contents of his own letters, saw there were two also