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consumed him gave her mueh concern, as not being intrusted with what oecasioned his trouble, 'twas out of her power to administer any comfort. Unhappy youth! said she, the first time they met after her resolve, you perish daily, and give me the fruitless concerns of beholding you consume away, and not be able to afford me any comfort. If the recital of my imprudent conduct has altered your opinion of me; tell me, I eonjure you, the cause of your afflietions.
Ah! madam, let me end my deplorable life without leaving you to reproach yourself with having shortened it. O heaven! she cried, what I? Can I have contributed to increase the woes under whieh you perish? Ease my tortured heart, and tell me what I have said? What have I done to aggrivate your afflictions? Speak, I say—you have revealed too mueh to hide yourself any longer—I do insist upon knowing who you are. Sinee you will foree from me so peremptorily the fatal seeret know that I am—that I am Fonrose, the son of those you lately filled with admiration and respeet. All that I have heard them relate of your virtue and your charms,inspired me with the rash design of seeing you under this disguise. I have seen you, and my fate is fixed. I have left my family in the deepest distress, They think that I am for ever lost; they lament my death. I know what is your attaehment here; and I have no other hope but to die adoring you. Forbear to give me any useless advice; my resolutions is as unmoveable as your own. Adelaide astonished at what she had heard, endeavouring to sooth young Fonrose's despair. I will restore him, said
