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'The Valancourts, Counts Duvarney,' replied Mons Bonnac

The eenerous benefactor

of his friend to be the rival of his love, can only be i overcome his first surprise, he dissipated the apprehensions of

Mons Bonnac by acquainting him, that Valancourt was at liberty, and had

lately been in Languedoc; after which his affection for E the conduct of his rival, during

his stay at Paris, of which M Bonnac appeared to be well informed The

answers he received were such as convinced him, that Valancourt had been

much misrepresented, and, painful as was the sacrifice, he for his pursuit of Emily to a lover, who, it

now appeared, was not unworthy of the regard, hich she honoured

him

The conversation of Mons Bonnac discovered, that Valancourt, some

time after his arrival at Paris, had been drawn into the snares, which

determined vice had spread for him, and that his hours had been chiefly

divided between the parties of the captivating Marchioness and those

ga assemblies, to which the envy, or the avarice, of his brother

officers had spared no art to seduce hie sums, in efforts to recover small ones, and to such losses the

Count De Villefort and Mons Henri had been frequent witnesses His

resources were, at length, exhausted; and the Count, his brother,

exasperated by his conduct, refused to continue the supplies necessary