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 rited it. Else how could I have forgot you so soon?"

—"So soon? Eternal God! is there no hopes for me, Marquis? speak—speak out, I conjure you! Why have you brought me hither in this damp and foggy night?"

She now began to rave, and all her words indicated a strong derangement of her mental faculties. She wildly beat about with her hands. Her whole frame was in convulsion. Her sparkling eyes became extinct, and she sell down as pale as a corpse. The faint glimpses of the planet of night shed new horrors over this trying scene. She only uttered some deep moans, and I had hardly strength enough to prevent her from taking away her life.

The count approached. We tried every means to restore her to her senses, where after a long paroxysm of dilirium, she seemed to recognize him, her hair stood an end, she violently wrested herself from us, and was on the point of throwing herself into an adjacent canal, but I fortunately prevented her from accomplishing the sinister purpose. Shame,