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 "Ah!" said she, "Ferdinand is then dead!"

"Not so, I hope, my dear Theresa," replied he tenderly.

"Dying, if not dead," returned she, "the dreadful certainty will soon arrive—A second time to feel this blow—alas! 'tis too, too much to bear."

Mr. d'Allenberg and the ladies besought her to retire into the house; she submitted in silence to their wishes, and was supported through the garden; the Count remained rooted to the spot, inconceivably astonished at a discovery so little expected.

"What an unfortunate adventure," said Baron Reiberg, "that we should be overheard; I had not the smallest idea of Miss D'Alenberg's attachment to our friend."

"Nor I, I promise you," returned the Count, trying to recover from his surprise; "nor I am sure had Ferdinand."

"But if he lives," said the Baron, "as he is now a disengaged man, I hope the young