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ERNESTUS BERCHTOLD.
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followed her steps, not with their usua boisterous cry for charity, but in silence; they seemed to watch the glance of her eye, as if the sympathy which shone there, had made them even forget their ragged miseries. Louisa was her counterpart, when I heard any one describing what her mother had been, it seemed that I could read the whole upon her daughter’s face, and methought I could often perceive the speaker reading on the same page. Doni had loved her; nay more, had adored her, but she had married him by the persuasion of her parents, while her heart was engaged to another far away; he had returned, they saw one another, and fled together; Doni pursued them, fired at the carriage which was escaping and blood fell upon the road;—they did not stop. Doni then entirely lost all command of himself; he fell in the road, calling for mercy and relief from that curse, which had already begun to blast him. He had never recovered

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