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 los! To-morrow after midnight!" cried she, with a loud voice.

I was quite embarrassed how to act. Not that my heart had spoke in the least manner in favor of Caroline, for to me she was, as it were, a woman without sex. To acquaint the count with the whole extent of his misfortune, finally struck me as a measure as necessary as it was cruel. I knew of no other means of keeping the assignation without treachery.

While I feigned to retire to my apartment, I tript on my toes back to my friend. I found him reading, and his countenance rather gloomy.

—"You are very downcast, Selami?" cried I with confidential assurance. "Has any thing happened? How is the countess?"

—"I don't think she is a-bed yet," returned he, "she was more agitated this night than I ever saw her before. She has been crying ever since morning; she complains of every thing. The weather, she says, is too cold; she murmurs at your never favoring her with your company, accuses the neigh-