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ALFRED DE ROSANN. 99 think that the report she had heard at the ball was not entirely void of foundation, and that her younger daughter and De Rosann were really attached to each other. She however determined to hold her peace for the present, and watch their glances and their manners more particularly, ere she suffered her mind to form any decided opinion relative to the matter. CHAPTER X. THE PROSPECTUS. Tus mind of Eloise experienced considerable relief when the receipt of De Rosann’s letters communicated the certainty of his obtaining a full pardon at the hands of Charles the Tenth. Nor less did her uncle feel the purest satisfaction, as he reflected that a weighty obsta- cle to the match would thus indubitably be removed from the mind of his sister-in-law. The contents of Leblond’s epistle pleaded as an ample apology for our hero’s stay in London, both with Eloise and Mr. Clay- ) ton; and although the former sighed when she recol lected how slowly slip away the weary hours when separated from those we love, she could not avoid in- wardly applauding Alfred’s courage, in thus determin- ing to support an absence, which his honour rendered necessary, and which would be productive of such fa- vourable results. She looked forward to the happy hours they might yet anticipate to passin each other’s society; and often—oh! oftendid she press De Rosann’s letter to her lips, and to her bosom, when she retired to her bed-chamber to peruse it. Mr. Clayton was de- lighted at the brightening prospect which now ani- mated the future; and he ceased to torment his sister- sn-law about her obstinacy, as he called it, in refusing CORMICGLOOKS (©)