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AGNES; OR, BEAUTY AND PLEASURE. 877 at We tals i \ 6 = “a aoc ett 12 °8 «<< e eae ttn ar CHAPTER LXVI. THE CAMERINO MANSION, Ir would be scarcely possible to depict a higher degree of earthly rapture than that which was ex- perienced by the lovers on being thus reunited. Upwards of a twelvemonth had elapsed since they parted in England, at the time when our hero re- ceived his appointment as an attaché to the Bri- ¢ish Embassy at Naples. And during that period what marvellous incidents had come within the range of his experience! what dangers had he eucountered! what perils had he passed through ! and bow much had ho seen of the world! And then too, at that date when he left England as an obscure pupil in the schools of diplomacy, how little had he foreseen what prosperity would be in dangers! And how little, too, had the beauteous Agues ventured to anticipate that he-—this bande some aud excellent young man— the object of hee sincerest affections—wae destined to attain to eo high a position in so short atime! It is true that our amiable heroine would have been happy with him as his bride even though it were the humbles¢ cottage that they might have to occupy: but how far greater the amount of felicity which they might now hope to enjoy, residing in a palatial mansion and surrounded by everything that wealth could bestow ! Agnes now learnt for the first time a full and detailed account of everything that had happened to her beloved Charles, with the exception of all those particulare which had regarded her erring cousin Floribel; and these he still continued to suppress for the most considerate of reasons, though he knew full well that the actual truth peore for him at the end of the vista of trials and , must eventually ooze out bye aome Means OF Air v ” Vox. II. MIKGIOO C©