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endeavour to persuade s, because you

happen to have no feelings yourself? I thought I was opening my heart

to a person, who could sympathize in my distress, but I find, that your

people of sensibility can feel for nobody but themselves! You , iled

emotion of pity and contempt, and hastened to her ohere she yielded

to the e of her aunt's situation

had occasioned

The conversation of the Italian with Valancourt, in

France, again occurred to her His hints, respecting the broken fortunes

of Montoni, were now co his

character, appeared not less so, though the particular circuer had alluded, yet re, that her own observations and the

words of Count Morano had convinced her, that Montoni's situation was

not what it forence she had just

received from her aunt on this point, struck her with all the force of

astonishment, which was not weakened, when she considered the present

style of Montoni's living, the number of servants he , by repairing and fortifying his castle