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 and a natural kind of sprightliness, which blended all her deportment with the charms of novelty.

It was at an evening-assembly, where we were first smitten with her. Several card-parties being formed in the same apartment, and a young lady who was always one of the players, having that evening gone into the country, it had become necessary to make an alteration in the choice of partners, in consequence of which it happened, that the count and I were to play at the same table; where Caroline was placed. No sooner had she perceived the new arrangement, than she declared her unwillingness of playing with any but her former partners. This caprice set the assembly in an uproar, the gentlemen not wishing to quit their new partners, and the latter, who were ladies, spurning the very idea of such a change for the sake of Caroline. This bustle was heightened! by several loud laughs, which completely disconcerted the latter, who ultimately told us, she would nor play at all that night. Calm and order being apparently restored, I sat