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calls for assistance. She revives. They embrace the old Shepherd by turns, and aequaint the wholc family with the subject of their transport. They set immediately on their journey, and arrived with the greatest expedition. The old dame condueted them to the place where she was. How great their surprise! when they beheld their lovely son with the shepherdess, in the habit of a simple pastor. Ah! cruel ehild, eried Fonrose's mother, throwing her arms about his neek, what troubles you have given us. What eould enduee you to leave your affectionate parents? What is your business here? To adore what you yourself so much admired. Madam, said Adelaide, whilst Fonrose embraeed his father's knees, you would not have been so long a prey to grief, had I diseovered sooner your dear son. After a few effusions of naturc were over, Fonrose relapsed into his former melaneholy. Come, said the Countess, let us go and repose ourselves in the eabin, and forget the woes this young man has plunged us in. 'Tis very true, said Fonrose to his father, who led him by the hand; what else but the deprivation of my reason eould suspend the emotions of nature, and make me forget the most saered duties? what but madness? I am in love with the most amiable and accomplished person in the world. You have seen but little of her Honour, Virtue, and Sensibility! She unites all that is good. I eannot be happy, without her, and she never ean be mine. Has she trusted you, said the Count, with the seeret of her birth? I have learned enough, replied Fonrose, to assure you it is not inferior to mine. She has renounced
