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 tion she gave me answered to the tender friendliness of his wishes.

"How!" began he, "does Adela receive thus coolly the friends of her father, and a brother restored?" Her looks now seemed to teach him better. He led her smiling towards me, "Here," said he, "embrace your sister."

We spent the whole day in ease and happiness. Don Fernandos displayed all his sprightliness to my Adela, and the steady Bernardos ingratiated himself to an astonishing degree with her father, who felt the gravity of my friend's temper congenial to his own.

Towards the evening a walk was proposed in the beautiful gardens of the castle. Adela with the familiarity of a sister laid hold of my arm, and, with a heavenly ingenuousness, pointed out every spot, where she had formerly thought on me. She told me too, that my name was constantly in her brother's mouth, and that he never was tired of loading me with encomiums.

How rapidly did the hours fleet away in such company! Don Fernandos seemed to