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'Yes,' replied the nun, 'this is nothing new; nay, I have soue not only with method, but with acuteness, and then, in a

moment, start off into madness' 'Her conscience seems afflicted,' said Emily, 'did you ever hear what

circumstance reduced her to this deplorable condition?'

'I have,' replied the nun, who said no more till Emily repeated the

question, when she added in a low voice, and looking significantly

towards the other boarders, 'I cannot tell you now, but, if you think it

worth your while, coht, when our sisterhood are at

rest, and you shall hear ht prayers,

and coht'

Emily pro, they

spoke no more of the unhappy nun

The Count meanwhile, on his return home, had found M Du Pont in one

of those fits of despondency, which his attachment to Emily frequently

occasioned hi to be easily

subdued, and which had already outlived the opposition of his friends

M Du Pont had first seen E the lifeti his son's partiality for Mademoiselle St

Aubert, his inferior in point of fortune, forbade him to declare it to

her fa the life of his father, he

had observed the first command, but had found it impracticable to obey