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Albert felt his heart bursting at these particulars, but gratitude ladly have eiven his father this proof of esteem at a moment when his honor was so powerfully attacked "At this ht in a letter for the president 'You are at liberty to speak, M de Morcerf,' said the president, as he unsealed the letter; and the count began his defence, I assure you, Albert, in a most eloquent and skilfulthat the Vizier of Yanina had up to the last moment honored him with his entire confidence, since he had interested hiotiation of life and death with the e, his enerally sealed his letters, and which the latter had given hiht, gain access to the presence, even in the hareotiation failed, and when he returned to defend his benefactor, he was dead 'But,' said the count, 'so great was Ali Pasha's confidence, that on his death-bed he resigned his favorite hter tothese words; the history of Haidee recurred to hie and the ring, and the manner in which she had been sold and made a slave "And what effect did this discourse produce?" anxiously inquired Albert "I acknowledge it affected me, and, indeed, all the committee also," said Beauchamp

"Meanwhile, the president carelessly opened the letter which had been brought to hiain and again, and fixing his eyes on M de Morcerf, 'Count,' said he, 'you have said that the Vizier of Yanina confided his wife and daughter to your care?'--'Yes, sir,' replied Morcerf; 'but in that, like all the rest, hter Haidee had disappeared'--'Did you know them?'--'My intiained me an introduction to them, and I had seen them above twenty times'

"'Have you any idea what became of them?'--'Yes, sir; I heard they had fallen victims to their sorrow, and, perhaps, to their poverty I was not rich; reat regret' The president frowned imperceptibly 'Gentlemen,' said he, 'you have heard the Comte de Morcerf's defence Can you, sir, produce any witnesses to the truth of what you have asserted?'--'Alas, no, monsieur,' replied the count; 'all those who surrounded the vizier, or who knew one away, I know not where I believe that I alone, of all my countrymen, survived that dreadful war I have only the letters of Ali Tepelini, which I have placed before you; the ring, a token of his good-will, which is here; and, lastly, theproof I can offer, after an anonyainst my veracity and the purity of h the asse ained It only remained to put it to the vote, when the president resumed: 'Gentlemen and you, monsieur,--you will not be displeased, I presume, to listen to one who calls himself a very important witness, and who has just presented himself He is, doubtless, coue Here is a letter I have just received on the subject; shall it be read, or shall it be passed over? and shall we take no notice of this incident?' M de Morcerf turned pale, and clinched his hands on the papers he held The cohtful and silent The president read:-"'Mr President,--I can furnish the committee of inquiry into the conduct of the Lieutenant-General the Count of Morcerf in Epirus and in Macedonia with important particulars'