Page 376 (1/2)

Having withdrawn to a distant part of the corridor, he said,

with a long-drawn sigh, 'You, h I am

so unhappy as to be unknown to you--My name is Du Pont; I a ad loved you' He paused,

but, in the next moment, proceeded 'My family, madam, is probably not

unknown to you, for we lived within a few miles of La Vallee, and I

have, so you, on visits in

the neighbourhood I will not offend you by repeating how much you

interested me; how much I loved to wander in the scenes you frequented;

how often I visited your favourite fishing-house, and lamented the

circumstance, which, at that time, forbade me to reveal my passion I

will not explain how I surrendered to temptation, and became possessed

of a treasure, which was to me inestier, a few days ago, with expectations

very different fro of these

circumstances, for I know they will avail iveness, and the picture, which I so unwarily