I Found It Was In French, By Some Words Which She Was Obliged To Repeat Over And Over, Before, Not Perfectly Understanding The Language, She Could Be Able To Find A Proper Interpretation Of.

The abbess, who has a little smattering of it herself, sometimes helped her out, and between them both I

Soon found it came from monsieur du Plessis, and contained the most tender and compassionate complaint of your unkindness in not answering his letter; - that the symptoms he had of approaching death were not half so severe to him as your refusing him a consolation he stood for much in need of; - that if you found him unworthy of your love, he was certainly so of your compassion; and concluded with the most earnest entreaty, you would suffer him to continue no longer in a suspence more cruel than a thousand deaths could be.

Oh heaven! cried Louisa, bursting into tears, how ungrateful must he think me, and how can I return, as it deserves, so unexampled a constancy, after such seeming proofs of my infidelity! - . Cruel, cruel, treacherous abbess! pursued she; Is this the fruits of all your boasted sanctity! - This the return to the confidence the generous du Plessis reposed in you! - This your love and friendship to me! - Does heaven, to increase the number of its votaries, require you to be false, perfidious, and injurious to the world!

She was proceeding in giving vent to the anguish of her soul in exclamations such as these; but Leonora begged she would moderate her grief, and for her sake, as much as possible, conceal the reasons she had for resentment.

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