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Though this was spoken in a low voice, it was overheard by the Count,

who immediately replied, that Mademoiselle St Aubert was then too much

indisposed, to attend to any conversation, but that he would venture

to promise she would see Monsieur Valancourt on the morrow, if she was

better Valancourt's cheek was crihtily at the Count,

and then at Erief and

supplication, which she could neither uidly--'I shall be better tomorrow, and if you wish to accept

the Count's permission, I will see you then'

'See led pride

and resent to recollect

himself, he added--'But I will come, madam; I will accept the Count's

PERMISSION' When they reached the door of the chateau, he lingered a moment, for

his resentment was now fled; and then, with a look so expressive of

tenderness and grief, that Eood htly to the Count, disappeared

Emily withdrew to her own apartment, under such oppression of heart as

she had seldom knohen she endeavoured to recollect all that the

Count had told, to examine the probability of the circumstances

he himself believed, and to consider of her future conduct towards

Valancourt But, when she attempted to think, her mind refused controul,

and she could only feel that she was miserable One moment, she sunk

under the conviction, that Valancourt was no longer the same, whom she