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himself witnessed in Valancourt, had certainly induced hi such as Emily could not na them; and, when he confessed

himself to be unworthy of her estee to her the most dreadful calumnies Thus the mistake had been

mutual, and had reenerous, but i friend to Du Pont, ith severe

justice, determined not only to undeceive the Count on this subject, but

to resign all hope of Emily Such a sacrifice as his love rendered

this, was deserving of a noble reward, and Mons Bonnac, if it had been

possible for hiet the benevolent Valancourt, would have wished

that Eht accept the just Du Pont

When the Count was informed of the error he had committed, he was

extremely shocked at the consequence of his credulity, and the account

which Mons Bonnac gave of his friend's situation, while at Paris,

convinced him, that Valancourt had been entrapped by the sche ed

him to associate, rather than by an inclination to vice; and, charenerosity, which his conduct

towards Mons Bonnac exhibited, he forgave him the transient errors,

that had stained his youth, and restored hiarded hi their early acquaintance