Count Zimchaw had lived, her vows would have been a barrier to our meeting. The information of Agnes caused her much sorrow, nor could she for a long time be persuaded to adopt the plan of Agnes, and repair to my estate. At length, however, when her grief for the death of her father was a little subsided, she accorded with the wishes of the other. Agnes pretended to be sent for by her parents, and applied for her discharge from the Baron, which was granted. Among her own clothes she conveyed Eugenia's, which had remained in the dark passage till that time, and having procured another suit of men's clothes, after she had left the Baron, she disguised herself, and came as the brother of the lame man to fetch him home.
So thoroughly was Eugenia altered by her dress, and the precautions she had taken, that there was little room for apprehension that she would be discovered, and the Baron having relaxed in his inquiries since his return from Suabia, they contrived to have their clothes
