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ward in delineating the feelings of admiration with which she had inspired me, and related to her, without reserve, my dear father's situation. She desired to see him; I flew to acquaint him of the dear lady's visit, and the scene that ensued between us, beggars all description. Long my father resisted her generous offers; but at length her irresistible tenderness conquered. She then proposed our living at Stutgard. She had a small estate on the skirts of the city, with a neat house on it: That, and a moderate income, for my father would only accept a very moderate one, she declared should be ours, for our joint lives; and whenever I should have the misfortune to lose my father, she would claim me as a sister, and as an inmate of her dwelling, wheresoever it was.—At present, added she, I design to retire into the convent you have quitted, until I have deliberately fixed on my future plan of life. I am sorry to say, Baron Nolker, who is a worthy man, is yet so prepossessed in favour of his nephew, that your story is entirely dis-