This conversation restored Ferdinand to some degree of composure, and bid him look forward to a situation where he might at least be independent, and he still hoped his brother would make some fixed establishment for his family previous to his departure.—That evening the Count told him he had written to Vienna, "and as I entertain no doubts respecting the success of my applications, we will lose no time in procuring the necessary equipments for your campaign."
Ferdinand thanked his brother warmly at the moment; but after he had retired to rest, and began to reflect on every occurrence, there appeared, he thought, an indecent eagerness in Rhodophil to hasten his departure: At first he told me I should possess an equal share of my late father's fortune; the servants were told they had two masters, and equal power was to be lodged in my hands. 'Tis true I had no right to expect it, yet why make such liberal offers, when the tenor of his conduct, and the behaviour of
