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Albert threw himself on Beauchamp's neck "Ah, noble fellow!" cried he
"Take these," said Beaucha the papers to Albert
Albert seized the lest the least vestige should escape and one day appear to confront hiars, and burned every frag the papers
"Let all be forgotten as a sorrowful dream," said Beauchamp; "let it vanish as the last sparks from the blackened paper, and disappear as the smoke from those silent ashes"
"Yes, yes," said Albert, "and may there remain only the eternal friendship which I promised to my deliverer, which shall be transmitted to our children's children, and shall always remind me that I owe my life and the honor of my name to you,--for had this been known, oh, Beauchamp, I should have destroyed myself; or,--no, my poor mother! I could not have killed her by the same blow,--I should have fled from my country"
"Dear Albert," said Beaucha rief
"Well," said Beauchamp, "what still oppresses you, my friend?"
"I am broken-hearted," said Albert "Listen, Beauchamp! I cannot thus, in a moment relinquish the respect, the confidence, and pride hich a father's untarnished name inspires a son Oh, Beauchamp, Beauchamp, how shall I now approach mine? Shall I draw back my forehead from his embrace, or withhold my hand from his? I am the most wretched ofthrough his tears at his mother's portrait; "if you know this, howboth his hands, "take courage, my friend"
"But how came that first note to be inserted in your journal? Some unknown enemy--an invisible foe--has done this"
"The more must you fortify yourself, Albert Let no trace of erief as the cloud bears within it ruin and death--a fatal secret, known only when the storth for the moment when the crash shall come"
"You think, then, all is not over yet?" said Albert, horror-stricken
"I think nothing, s are possible By the way"-"What?" said Albert, seeing that Beauchalars?"
"Why do you ask e"
"How?" said Albert, whose brow reddened; "you think M Danglars"-"I ask you only how your engagement stands? Pray put no construction on ive theht"