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'O Signora! there is no danger of that,' replied Maddelina, 'my mother

cannot miss the fruit, for I saved it from my own supper You will nora' Eirl's generosity, that she

remained for some time unable to reply, and Maddelina watched her in

silence, till,the cause of her enora! My mother, to be sure, is a little cross, sometimes,

but then it is soon over,--so don't take it so much to heart She often

scolds me, too, but then I have learned to bear it, and, when she has

done, if I can but steal out into the woods, and play uponthrough her tears, told Maddelina, that she was a good

girl, and then accepted her offering She wished anxiously to knohether Bertrand and Dorina had spoken of Montoni, or of his designs,

concerning herself, in the presence of Maddelina, but disdained to teirl to a conduct sothe private

conversations of her parents When she was departing, Emily requested,

that she would co

herthat she would do so, stole

softly back again to her own cha which E her only at her repast, whose gentle countenance and