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CHAP. VI.

"Nor peace, nor ease that heart can know,
Which, like the needle true,
Turns at the touch of joy or woe,
But, turning, trembles too."
Greville.

Some weeks passed before Laurette heard from Enrîco, and being alarmed at this delay, she became anxious and dispirited; sometimes fearing that the warmth of his disposition had led him into some dangerous enterprize, and at others, that he was ill, or had met with some unexpected obstacle inhis