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 Count; his countenance said nothing. She soon recovered, and only replied, "her father had a right to see whom he pleased, although she could not see the necessity of adding to their acquaintance for the very short time they should stay in that city."—No answer was made to this observation, and the Count receiving an invitation for himself and his friends, they separated soon after.

As he walked back he recollected the secret attachment which Louisa had hinted at as the cause of her friend's disorder upon her spirits, and revolving every occurrence as they rose to his mind, he began to entertain an idea, that either Ferdinand or himself was the object of it. He was many years older than his friend, and he thought very inferior to him in every personal endowment; yet he had remarked she generally addressed herself to him, and the particular looks she had eyed him with when her father spoke of the Count's visit, had not passed unobserved then, and now, from several cor-