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Eht compose her spirits and

ree the censorious

remarks of the Countess and her favourite, as well as excite the

curiosity of the rest of the family She found it, however, impossible

to tranquillize her mind, from which she could not expel the remembrance

of the late scene with Valancourt, or the consciousness, that she was to

see hi now appeared enuous confession he had made of his

ill conduct and his eth and

tenderness of affection, which this confession discovered, had deeply

impressed her, and, in spite of all she had heard and believed to his

disadvantage, her esteean to return It frequently appeared to her

iuilty of the depravities, reported

of him, which, if not inconsistent with his warmth and impetuosity,

were entirely so with his candour and sensibility Whatever was the

criiven rise to the reports, she could not now

believe them to be wholly true, nor that his heart was finally closed

against the charms of virtue

The deep consciousness, which he felt as

well as expressed of his errors, seemed to justify the opinion; and,

as she understood not the instability of youthful dispositions, when

opposed by habit, and that professions frequently deceive those, who

ht have yielded to the