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The celerity and ease, hich this whole

transaction was co curiosity, or

even fro a place in any of the published records of that

tinorant of the

defeat and signal humiliation of her late persecutor

Her s, which no effort of reason had

yet been able to controul Count De Villefort, who sincerely atte them, sometimes

allowed her the solitude she wished for, sometimes led her into friendly

parties, and constantly protected her, as much as possible, from the

shrewd enquiries and critical conversation of the Countess He often

invited her towhich

he conversed entirely on questions, suitable to her taste, without

appearing to consult it, and thus endeavoured gradually to withdraw her

frorief, and to awake other interests in her htened friend and protector of

her youth, soon felt for hihter, and

her heart expanded to her young friend Blanche, as to a sister, whose

kindness and simplicity compensated for the want ofbefore she could sufficiently abstract her

mind from Valancourt to listen to the story, pro which her curiosity had once been so deeply interested; but

Dorothee, at length, reminded her of it, and Eht, to her chahts were employed by considerations, which weakened her