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And poor Misfortune feels the lash of Vice

THOMSON

E alone with Mons

Quesnel, concerning La Vallee His answers to her enquiries were

concise, and delivered with the air of aabsolute power and i it questioned He

declared, that the disposal of the place was a necessary ht consider herself indebted to his prudence for even the

small income that remained for her

'But, however,' added he, 'when

this Venetian Count (I have forgot his nareeable state of dependence will cease As a relation to you I

rejoice in the circumstance, which is so fortunate for you, and, I may

add, so unexpected by your friends' For some moments Emily was chilled

into silence by this speech; and, when she atte the purport of the note she had inclosed in Montoni's letter,

he appeared to have so her assertion,

and, for a considerable ti her of capricious

conduct

Being, at length, however, convinced that she really disliked

Morano and had positively rejected his suit, his resentant, and he expressed it in terms equally pointed and inhuman;