Added to which, her polite kindness to Louisa denoted a mind above the idea of conferring favours, but was herself the obliged person, in being permitted to offer them.
Such was the character of Miss D'Alenberg.—He admired, he revered her; but at that time, the recent unaccountable troubles that hung over him; his affection for Claudina, which, though weakened, was not extinguished, and his peculiar situation, impeded every thought of Miss D'Alenberg, otherwise than as a most estimable young woman.
But when the Count and himself had so fortunately met with Louisa, the story she related of her friend's melancholy and secret attachment, the dormant admiration of her person and mind, again blazed forth; he felt the sincerest concern for her situation, not entirely unmixed with envy, for the man who was the object of her preferable regard.—This object, his sagacity at length discovered to be Count M———, and he also was convinced the unfortunate partiality was a mu-
