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(&emsp;302&emsp;) from the suddenness of a delight which broke into a sorrow nearly hopeless; "O Lady Aurora! if you could know how I prize your regard! your goodness!—what a balm it is to every evil I now experience, your gentle and generous heart would be recompensed for all the concern I occasion it, by the pleasure of doing so much good!"

"You can still, then, love me, my Miss Ellis?"

"Ah, Lady Aurora! if I dared say how much!—but, alas, in my helpless situation, the horror of being suspected of flattery—"

"What you will not say, then," cried Lady Aurora, smiling, "will you prove?"

"Will I?—Alas, that I could!"

"Will you let me take a liberty with you, and promise not to be offended?"

She put a letter into her hand, which Ellis fondly kissed, and lodged near her heart.

The words "Where is Lady Aurora?" now sounded from the stair-case.