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Meanwhile Madalars, veiled and uneasy, awaited the return of Debray in the little green room, seated between two baskets of flowers, which she had thatsent, and which, it ed and watered with so much care that his absence was half excused in the eyes of the poor wolars, tired of waiting, returned horisettes in one respect, they seldom return home after twelve o'clock The baroness returned to the hotel with as htly up-stairs, and with an aching heart entered her apartenie She was fearful of exciting any rehter's innocence and fidelity to the paternal roof She listened at Eugenie's door, and hearing no sound tried to enter, but the bolts were in place Madairl had been overcoone to bed and to sleep She called the enie," said the maid, "retired to her apartether, after which they desired er" Since then the ht the young ladies were in their own roolars, therefore, went to bed without a shadow of suspicion, and began to muse over the recent events In proportion as herwere revealed in their true light; what she had taken for confusion was a tu, was in reality a disgrace And then the baroness remembered that she had felt no pity for poor Mercedes, who had been afflicted with as severe a blow through her husband and son

"Eugenie," she said to herself, "is lost, and so are we The affair, as it will be reported, will cover us with shame; for in a society such as ours satire inflicts a painful and incurable wound How fortunate that Eugenie is possessed of that strange character which has so often lance was turned towards heaven, where a s, and out of a fault, nay, even a vice, so through space like a bird in the air, rested on Cavalcanti This Andrea was a wretch, a robber, an assassin, and yet his manners showed the effects of a sort of education, if not a complete one; he had been presented to the world with the appearance of an immense fortune, supported by an honorable name How could she extricate herself from this labyrinth? To ould she apply to help her out of this painful situation? Debray, to whom she had run, with the first instinct of a woman towards the ive her advice, she must apply to some one more powerful than he