At Length The Wish'd-For Time Arrived, And He Repaired To The Gate,
Where Telling The Portress, As He Was Ordered, That He Was The Brother
Of Mademoiselle Du Pont, He Was Immediately Brought Into The Parlour,
Where He Had Not Waited Long Before A Young Lady Appeared Behind The
Grate:
As he found it was not her he expected, he was a little at a
loss, and not without some apprehensions that his imagination had
deceived him:
I know not, madame, said he, if chance has not made me
mistaken for some happier person: - I thought to find a sister here. - No,
replied she laughing, Horatio shall find me a sister in my good
offices; - mademoiselle Charlotta will be here immediately; - she has
counterfeited an indisposition to avoid going to vespers, and obtained
permission for me to stay with her; - so that every thing is right, and
as soon as the choir is gone into chapel you will see her. It would be
needless to repeat the transports Horatio uttered on this occasion, so I
shall only say they were such as convinced mademoiselle du Pont, that
her fair friend had not made this condescension to a man ungrateful for,
or insensible of the obligation. He was indeed so lost in them, that he
scarce remembered to pay those compliments to the lady for her generous
assistance which it merited from him; but she easily forgave any
unpoliteness he might be guilty of on that score; and he so well attoned
for it after he had given vent to the sudden emotions of his joy, that
she looked, upon him as the most accomplished, as well as the most
faithful of his sex.
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