After The Utmost Testimonies Of Respect On Both Side, Dorilaus Told His
Daughter She Ought To Make Her Excuses To
Monsieur for having eloped
from the monastry where he had been so good to place her, which, said
he, I
Think you can do in no better a manner than by telling the truth,
and as I am already sufficiently acquainted with the whole, will leave
you to relate it, while I dispatch a little business that at present
calls me hence. He went out of the room in speaking this, and Louisa had
a more full opportunity of informing her lover of all she had suffered
since their parting, till this happy change in her fortune, than she
could have had in the presence of her father, tho' no stranger to her
most inmost thoughts on this occasion.
The pleasing story of her pilgrimage rehearsed, how did the charmed du
Plessis pity and applaud, by turns, her sufferings and fortitude! - How
exclaim against the treachery of the abbess, and those of the nuns who
were in confederacy with her! But his curiosity satisfied in this point,
another rose instantly in his mind, that being the daughter of such a
person as Dorilaus, wherefore she had made so great a secret of it, and
what reason had occasioned her being on the terms she was with Melanthe.
He no sooner expressed his wonder on these heads, than, having before
her father's permission to do so, she resolved to leave him in no
suspence on any score relating to her affairs.
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