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 fear of continuing there would have deranged my intellects. When the nuns came to me, and observed the alteration in my temper, they retired, to make, as they said, a favourable report, and obtain my liberty, which, through their interposition, was effected by the dinner hour, when I appeared vexed and mortified, and with a heart throbbing with grief and disappointment. I endured a short lecture from the Abbess (who persisted always in calling me Miss) with a sort of restrained pride, that sat very ill, I believe on my features; as she gently cautioned me against indulging improper notions or visionary expectations. I made no reply, but from that hour, gave myself up as a lost creature, disclaimed or forgotten by all my connexions.

Once or twice after this, when I was upon tolerable terms with the Abbess, I ventured to question her, whether Baron Nolker, or his nephew the Count, was still at Ulm.—She assured me they were not; that they had quitted the country within a month after