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ALFRED DE ROSANN. 7 in endeavours to demonstrate their affection for the daughter of the emigrant; and Henry in particular entertained an unfeigned attachment towards the gen- tle Eloise. Time rolled onwards—weeks and months passed away; and the mind of d’Hstelle gradually became restless. He experienced a secret yearning to revisit the shores of his native country; he knew that if he could only set foot in the French metropolis, he might realize more than half of his once extensive property, the greater portion having been so laid out as to be immediately tangible by him, and available to no one else. He communicated his desires to Mr. Clayton, who at first combatted them with success; but at length a circumstance occurred that fixed the waver- ing resolutions of the refugee, and rendered him deaf to the friendly remonstrances of the excellent surgeon. One evening, as M. d’Estelle was returning home from a theatre—the first time he had entered any | place of public amusement since the death -of his still lamented wife—he was accosted by an individual who respectfully saluted him, and called him by his real name. The noble emigrant could not at first recollect the features of the person that thus address- ed him; but a moment’s reflection called to his mind the countenance of an old domestic whom he had been obliged to discharge ere he quitted Paris. A long conversation ensued. ‘The servant had only ar- | rived in London a few days before the one on which this encounter took place; and he related in full many of the political changes which had just occurred in France, and of which his late master had only heard imperfect rumours, or had gathered garbled accounts from the London journals. At length they separated, but not before M. d’Estelle had given his fellow- countryman a rendezvous for the next day. The noble. refugee returned home to the dwelling of his friends; and in the course of the evening, when pressed to reveal the cause of his thoughtfulness, he declared his intention of undertaking a journey to his COMmMicoookS.s.c©