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the charming marquis of Inverary. But here all her arrows failed, for she never could extract more than a how d'ye do? from him, through the long lapse of four months; during which time she continued as constant to his fine figure, and her own folly, as could have fallen to the lot of any poor despairing damsel. However, my lord was so cruel, so perfidious, as to allow several opportunites to pass, in which he might have declared his passion; and she told Arabella, in a letter of six sheets, that she would bear it no longer.

She put this wise resolution in practice; and had already played the same game with half a score, (the last of whom was a young guardsman, who had just rode into her heart, by managing his steed, with the air of an Alexander, every day in Hyde Park,) when Thaddeus made his appear. ance before her.

The moment she fixed her eyes on him, her inflammable imagination was set in a blaze. She forgot his apparent subordi

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nate quality, in the nobleness of his figure; and, once or twice, that evening, whilst she was flitting about the sparkling cynosure of the dutchess of Orkney's masquerade, her thoughts hovered over the handsome foreigner.

She viewed the subject, first one way and then another, and in her ever-varying mind, "he was every thing by turns, and nothing long;" but at length she argued herself into a belief, that he must be a man of rank from some of the German courts, who having seen her somewhere unknown to herself, had fallen in love, and persuaded Lady Tinemouth to introduce him as a language-master to her family, that he might be enabled to appreciate the disinterestedness of her disposition.

This wild idea having once gotten into her head, received instant credence. She resolved, without seeming to suspect it, to treat him as his quality deserved, and to deliver sentiments in his hearing, which should charm him with their delicacy and generosity. With

With these chimeras floating in her brain, she returned home, went to bed, and dreamed that Mr. Constantine had turned out to be Monsieur, had offered her his hand, and that she was conducted to the altar by a train of princes and princesses, his brothers and sisters.

She awoke the next morning from these d. liriums, in an ecstacy, deeming them prophetic; and, taking up her book, began, with a fluttering attention, to scan the lesson which Thaddeus had desired her to learn.

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CHAP. VII.

THE following day at noon, as the count Sobieski was crossing over Cavendishsquare, to keep his appointment in Harleystreet, he was met by Lady Sara Roos. She had spoken with the Miss Dundasses the night before, at the masquerade; where discovering the pretty Euphemia through the dress of Eloisa, her jealous and incensed heart, could not withstand the temptation of hinting at the captivating Abelard, whom she had elected to direct her studies. Her ladyship soon penetrated into the situation of Euphemia's heated fancy; and drew from her, without betraying herself, that she expected to see her master the following day. Lady Sara, stung to the soul, immediately quitted the rooms, and, in a paroxysın

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disappointment, determined to throw herself in his way as he went to their house.

With this hope, she had already been traversing the square upwards of an hour, when her anxious eye, at last caught a view of his figure, proceeding along Margaret-street. Hardly able to support her tottering frame, shaken as it was with contending emotions, she accosted him first; for he was passing straight onwards, without looking to the right or the left. On seeing her ladyship he stopped, and expressed his pleasure at the meeting.

"If you really are pleased to meet me," said she, forcing a smile, " take a turn with ine round the square. I want to speak with you.'

Thadde s bowed, and her ladyship put her arm through his, but remained silent for a few minutes, in evident confusion. The count recollected that it must now be. quite two. Henew the awkwardness of making, the Misses Dundass wait; and, notwithstanding his reluctance to appear

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